According to the police report, “[Somma] had a difficult time locating his license in his purse. He passed over it multiple times before removing it.” Yes, that is purse, not wallet. It seems that Mrs. Somma was out of town and so judge Somma (one of W’s conservative appointees) decided to go to a well-known fag bar in New Hampshire.

When police arrived on the scene of the accident they found the drunk Somma in a black cocktail dress, high heals and fishnet stockings. And if you look carefully at Somma’s mug shot (found here), you will also notice that he was wearing blue eye shadow.

It is fitting that Somma was a bankruptcy judge. He is the perfect metaphor for Republican values.

According to the article on a DC based blog (which I will not link to): “e-mail and other records confirm that the two [Lott and a “gay” male escort] have met on at least two occasions.”

s hofmeister

I thought the purpose of the article would be obvious to most and especially to long time readers of FW such as yourself. It provides one more reason for Christians to abandon the Republican Party.

As my colleague recently wrote:

“Extracting the Republican Party from the Christian Right’s thinking is as urgent as amputating a gangrenous limb. In the political sphere, there is no task more important.”

You ask, “Do we really need a catalog of certain sins of particular lawmakers to the exclusion of other sins of other lawmakers?”

Rather than giving the answer (which I think is obvious), it would perhaps be more fruitful to consider what lies behind your question.

I believe that the differences between men and women is at play here. My wife did not like this post either. To interpret her henid for her, she thought it was too direct, too unvarnished, and too harsh. And she is probably right . . . for ladies. But not for men. I am, thus, sorry that she and Eliza, and any other lady for that matter, read it. Originally the warning at the top read, “Not for the gentler sex.” I probably should have stuck with that.

This is one problem with our blog and the internet in general. It is public and accessible to anyone who wants to read it: man, woman, child. I would not allow my children to read all my posts and not all of them are appropriate for my wife (although I have not forbidden her to read any of them).

Once again, the Godfather may help. Think of the scene in Godfather II when the young Don closes the bathroom door on his wife in order to protect her from the uglier side of life. Michael continues this noble practice. In Godfather III he tells Kay that he spent his life shielding his wife and family from the horrors of the world.

In the future I will place more explicit warnings on material not suitable for women and children. Please take the warnings seriously. And I apologize to all of the ladies for not giving a stronger warning about the nature of the post.

#25 -

Well, if this was the intention of comment #4, I think he is missing the humor.

That aside, a better question would be: Are there any politicians in either party that aren’t closet Jews?

Mr. Taylor #14 -

You will have to direct this one to Dave Bahnsen. Dave is a good kid — loyal, hospitable, generous. Why he holds some of the views he does is a mystery to me.

I am not really sure what the reasoning was behind the original post (by MRB) in the first place. Do we really need a catalog of certain sins of particular lawmakers to the exclusion of other sins of other lawmakers, to say nothing of the particular sins of other people in general? (That is intended to be confusing). Where is the edification in this? To me, the original post has more in common with a Jerry Falwell than a WCF Calvinist.