The thuggishness continues. Last night, gay rights crusader/political hatchet man Mike Rogers revealed that Idaho Senator Larry Craig is gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Unless you’re a Republican.

Craig was surprised by his outing, since he didn’t even know he was in. Craig, the father of three and the grandfather of nine, dismissed Rogers’ allegations as “laughable” through his office’s spokesman. Rogers meanwhile stands by his “reporting” and claims to have spoken to three men who have had trysts with Craig. Rogers will maintain the anonymity of these three men, presumably because they a) are not Republicans; and b) don’t exist.

Meanwhile, a benumbed nation can only look on in horror at what has become of the Democratic Party.

(For those wishing to sample liberal spin on this matter, the estimable Glenn Greenwald outdoes himself with even more intellectual incoherence than usual and hurls his typically hysterical metaphor-filled prose at the subject, e.g. “Bush followers are drowning in the most transparent and rancid hypocrisy.”)

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