What Do You Think of, "What Do You Think of That?"

"... Craig handed me a business card that identified himself as a United States Senator as he stated, 'What do you think about that?'..." --Statement of the officer who arrested Senator Larry Craig for lewd conduct in a public men's room at Minneapolis/Saint Paul Airport

The uptight, obviously conflicted, Republican family values prigs are the gift that keeps on giving. There is no end to the jokes, smirks, arched eyebrows, and innuendo they generate.

Not nearly so funny in the strange case of, "Senator Craig, Men's Room Attendant," is the image of a United States senator playing his business card like a combination "Get Out of Jail Free" card and ace of trump.

Well, actually, I take that back. It is pretty funny. Here was a United States senator slapping down his business card and asking, "What do you think of that?" to a cop who just arrested him for lewd conduct in a public restroom.

Was he expecting the cop to be impressed? Did he think the officer would apologize, beg his forgiveness, then speed him on a beeping cart down the concourse through the throngs of little people to his flight?

This police officer's assignment for the day involved sitting in a public restroom stall waiting to be solicited for sex. I'm guessing it was not the glamorous or high-adrenalin aspect of police work for which he got into law enforcement. I'm guessing that, sitting there, staking out that little corner of heaven would be more than enough to of a pain in the neck to trigger a King-Kong case of passive aggression in Mother Teresa.

I'm guessing that a cop on the job in a john at the airport would take great satisfaction out of catching anyone -- and even greater satisfaction out of catching somebody stupid enough to try to "impress" his way out of the tawdry little charge.

"What do you think of that?"

I think what we have here appears to be a homosexually repressed United States Senator in a senatorial bubble, not just a toilet stall. I think there are plenty of others in the Senate and the House and the Executive Branch and possibly even on the Supreme Court who think their office places them above the law.

Maybe that's what we all should think of that.