Larry Craig attended a Senate hearing on climate change and totally schooled the president of Yale by pointing out the Ivy League university produced more carbon per student than Berkeley. Oh and you know which educational institution produces very little carbon per student? The pinko commies at Boise State, in Craig’s own pinko commie state of Idaho. MORE »

The Idaho strawberry farmer who legally changed his name to Pro-Life and planned to appear as such on the U.S. Senate ballot this fall is being thwarted by corrupt local politicians. The Idaho Senate has passed some emergency legislation that “would require candidates who change their name to their stance on the issues instead of a traditional name have a note added to the ballot noting their former name.” Quick quick, someone send any dumb liberal watchdog group over there — they are saying he doesn’t have a “traditional name” & that’s racist!! MORE »

Thank you to Wonkette operative “Paul” for giving us a sneak peak of the vendors at Nationals Park, the brand new D.C. baseball stadium. Nothing like a fresh brew (and therapy) to wash down a piping hot Senator’s Sausage!

Jesus criminy, this news makes us forget entirely about the 5-year-old Iraq War thing this morning! Because like you, we have been fearing the next Congress and its unfortunate lack of gay Idaho Senator Larry Craig. (That is, unless he changes his mind and runs for reelection, which is likely). But can Craig’s seat be usurped by an equally comical legislator-monkey? No, but one candidate in the open-seat Idaho senate race shows great potential. Meet independent candidate Marvin Richardson, who has legally changed his name to “Pro-Life.” Wonkette hereby endorses him for any office he ever wants. MORE »

When it comes to powerful Senate leaders, you can’t wander much farther from the herd than Idaho’s own Larry Craig. Beloved commenter Botswana Meat Commission FC brings our attention to this “Power Ranking” thingum, which offers definitive proof that Senator Craig has about as much legislative pull as the Fraggles who are illegally beamed down from space every night to lick clean the elevator buttons in the Capitol. The only loser more pathetic than Craig is John Barrasso, the freshman senator from Wyoming. What is he hiding? [Congress.org Power Rankings]

Wow, we’d gotten so entangled in the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal that we forgot about America’s Gays and their leader, Senator Larry Craig of Idaho. What’s that unbelievably gay man been up to recently? When not scanning over intern applications, it seems he’s still going on about that little airport incident last summer. His lawyers have entered another “reply” to the court of Minnesota, arguing in vain that What He Did was not gay at all. Let’s find the most hilariously gay moments of this 42-page document! MORE »

Barack Obama’s been so busy captivating America-at-large that he’s nearly forgotten to assuage his own people, the American gay community — standard Democrats as well as “Larry Craig Obamacans.” After recently purchasing targeted ad buys to the LGBT communities of Ohio and Texas, Obama today released an open letter to gay people who live on the Internet. In it, he explains how he will fix AIDS, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the lack of civil unions and other issues that gay people vote exclusively on, everywhere. Is your gaydar buzzing? Full letter, after the jump. MORE »

It’s that time of year again, and the Hill is looking for 2008’s crop of ambitious, savvy whippersnappers to make up its corps of summer interns! They’ll get to organize back room deals and schmooze with the fat cats, but mostly, they’ll learn that running America isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And if you’re a summer intern for Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, who knows what else you’ll be forced to do? MORE »

The best AP article ever, in its entirety:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Ethics Committee says Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in a men’s room sex sting. In a letter Wednesday, the ethics panel says Craig’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in a June arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal consequences of his own actions.

The letter says Craig’s actions brought discredit on the Senate.

The panel took no further action.

Zing? [AP/Google]

Last night there was some episode of the popular teevee show Law & Order that may or may not have been about Larry Craig. It also may or may not have been about Barack Obama, Norman Hsu, and the murder of Vince Foster by Hillary Clinton! DID YOU SEE IT? I sure didn’t, but Intern Elise “Gossip Roundup” Rosen — who’s from L.A., just like the movie stars — for some reason did. She summarized the plot and “allegories” of the episode in a very formal G-chat conversation last night, despite my best attempts to make things incoherent. Read at your own risk, after the jump. MORE »

ACLU, get A CLUE! Wonkette’s Person of the Year 2007, Larry Craig, is getting a little support from those pissy ACLU lawyers. They filed a brief Tuesday arguing that people fucking in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy. Maybe this is some creative way for the ACLU to keep this story in the press and assume the homosexuality of Larry Craig, or maybe Larry Craig just offered to buy and sell the ACLU’s ass a thousand times over. [AP/Google]