Larry Craig, we hardly knew ye.

I'm not sure what to think about Idaho Senator Larry Craig. The media certainly painted him as getting busted doing homo-trolling in an airport men's room. However, after hearing the post-arrest interview recorded by the policeman who nabbed Craig, I'm not so sure that's so.

During the interview, the cop very much minimalized the offense by saying something on the order of "pay the fine, and that's it." Because the only thing they could agree on was that their shoes touched under the stall divider, Craig characterized the event between the cop and he as "entrapment." It seems it may be so, if Craig is to be believed. If one man's foot touches another, is that playing footsie? Of course, maybe the rules change when the pants are down. But a reflection on context may be in order, and maybe because the cop was looking for something, he mischaracterized innocent events as something else.

That an interview was even conducted under such circumstances, and that the cop berated Craig, saying he was "disappointed," and "no wonder we're going down the tubes," has me scratching my head. This just ain't kosher.

Craig did his dumbness by admitting guilt. I mean, that might take the prize for Stupid Acts by Congressmen, and that's takes some doing. Then, when the news hit Washington, the sharks came on in a feeding frenzy.

The surprise were the Republicans. It's going to be a tough election year for them, so it's no wonder they were antsy. Still, their vociferousness in denouncing Craig was a little off-putting. Doth the ladies protest too much?

The hypocrisy is still stinging. All over American politics are scandals and closet-skeletons, so much so that were should be used to them by now. Just discussing homosexuality and Congress, the first recollection should be the Democrats gay PooBah, Barney Frank. Remember, he had a live-in boy-toy that was a hooker running a gay prostitution service from Frank's residence. But the Dems rallied around him; they had the etics probe, but Frank survided the reprimand. That was what, 2 decades ago? And Frank is still there.

Guilty or innocent, Craig's situation really doesn't matter. We The People will never know the truth, anyway, would have never known the truth, and at the end of the day, Craig wasn't shacked up with a gay pimp running a homo brothel at his crib.

I'm just trying to figure out which is worse, and why one is forced to resign, while the other is held in high regard.

Politicians really live in a different world than the rest of us.