For a somewhat different perspective on Craig

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Check this from 12/28/05

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_doug_tho_051228_gop_disillusionment_.htm

A few choice bits:

Barr, one of the most conservative members of Congress when he served in the House, leads an increasing group of disenchanted Republicans who have had enough of Bush’s misuse of the law and encroachment of civil liberties that are supposed to be protected by the Constitution. He has joined with fellow conservative firebrand Phyllis Schlafly and the ultra-liberal American Civil Liberties Union to fight renewal of many of the rights-robbing provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

And he’s not alone. Republican Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Larry Craig of Idaho and Olympia Snowe of Maine question Bush’s actions along with Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bush is also angry with Craig, a conservative who joined with Democrats in a filibuster to defeat permanent renewal of the Patriot Act. As a meeting recently, Bush referred to Craig as “a goddamned traitor” and told the National Republican Senatorial Committee to start recruiting someone to run against the Idaho Senator in 2008.

Such anger against those who dare oppose him is typical for a President who all too often launches into obscene tirades when his policies are questioned. Bush, on many occasions, has called political opponents “traitors’ and, in private, refers to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter as a “lily-livered bastard.”

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1. GOP Hypocrisy: They Let Vitter Off When He Hires a Prostitute

GOP Hypocrisy: They Let Vitter Off When He Hires a Prostitute

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2. My point ws that...

... it may well go beyond just that.

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3. Vitter, Vitter, the Diaper Shitter? nt

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4. Craig gave a bit different perspective on this at one point

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1713886&mesg_id=1714112

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5. Thanks, I had not seen that thread

You would not expect Craig to have the same perspective on the Patriot Act as Feingold, would you?