Any powerful Ida-ho needs a strong “Lion” behind him. And doesn’t the senior senator from Idaho Mr. Larry Craig know this! In a statement yesterday entitled “Dreaming of a Clean (Energy) Christmas,” where he mostly brags about how he got to make out with George Bush at the White House the other day, Craig inserts a special love quote for his inspiration: William E. Borah, the “Lion of Idaho.” Oh Larry, we all know you-da-ho! MORE »

This Larry Craig guy. First he’s able to elude that embarrassing recant on his pledge to resign, then he dodges those Ethics Committee hearings McConnell told us we’d get, then EIGHT MEN relate their stories of gay sex with this hypocrite, and where does it bring him today? To the White House as an official guest for a signing ceremony. [Pause, so as to consider]. Larry Craig is the best politician of our era. MORE »

Apparently not yet ready for the “serious” questioning he’d get on a Sunday morning, Larry Craig (and his terrifying wife) will subject themselves to an awkward chat with Matt Lauer next Tuesday, after an interview on local Idaho TV. This will be his first TV appearance since his arrest for toilet cruising in a Minneapolis airport, his guilty plea, his promise to resign, his legal challenge of the guilty plea, that challenge’s dismissal, and his announcement that no, on second thought he won’t be retiring after all. No word yet on whether his sad adopted children will be joining the happy couple. MORE »

This year’s inductees into the Idaho Hall of Fame include Gov. Butch Otter, Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, Boise State University football coach Chris Petersen, John Grossenbacher, director of the Idaho National Laboratory nuclear and energy research center, and nationally beloved senator Cruisin’ Larry Craig. [AP via CNN]

Everybody loves recipes, especially when political leaders submit their “favorites” for charity or whatever. Here’s the most beloved recipe of Gay Larry Craig, the beloved “Super Tuber.” MORE »

As a Republican from Nebrasdaho or wherever the fuck, Larry Craig was a tireless champion of power companies and logging concerns, and he never stopped fighting the powerful salmon interests. That’s right, salmon — you might know them as the harmless smoked fish Larry King puts on his bagels, when he is making bagels, but in real life Big Salmon has a stranglehold on our government and industry, preventing upstanding American companies from building big dams that power our baby monitors and puppy-grooming machines. But with Larry resigning in disgrace for the “crime” of soliciting public sex with an undercover cop, these salmon may soon be free to infest the Snake River with their disgusting spawn. That’s why we all need to support Senator Craig in his latest campaign: the campaign to not actually resign. MORE »

Larry Craig — the Senator from Idaho who isn’t gay at all, just wide-stanced — said he wouldn’t resign just because he was arrested and pleaded guilty to trying to have gay sex in a public restroom. Oddly, his Republican peers aren’t supporting him in this fight against the newspaper that made him tap his foot alluringly. In fact, they seem to be pressuring him to leave! MORE »

“As the Executive Director of the Idaho Values Alliance, I received approximately five dozen emails and phone calls from homosexuals and gay sympathizers from all over the country yesterday afternoon and evening. The one thing they all shared in common was an unseemly glee over the senator’s apparent fall from grace.” [Idaho Values Alliance]

Talking Points Memo just dug up this amusing anti-homosexual website in Idaho, run by a group of staunch anti-homosexual activists who are also, amusingly, big fans of Senator Larry Craig. Just below a happy photo of the latest Republican politician to be caught hitting up dudes in the public restrooms, there’s a fun post about the gay danger lurking within our nation’s toilet stalls — specifically in the airport restrooms, which of course is where Republican Senator Craig was arrested for soliciting gay sex: MORE »

* Reliable Source: Cynthia McKinney, Mary Cheney leading Reliable Source 2006 poll. [WP]
* Yeas and Nays: Spider-man gets political, decries comics version of Guantanamo-for-superheros… The markets perform way better when Congress is on recess… George Allen will not fucking stop with the football metaphors. [Examiner]
* In the Know: Idaho Republicans have more fun: Rep. Mike Simpson once threatened to throw Rep. Bill Sali out a window. [The Hill]

California governor and accident-prone gal groper Arnold Schwarzenegger broke his leg skiing in Idaho and is having a bunch of metal screwed into his “right femur” today. MORE »