Atrios and Kos seem cheerful about this leading to this.
I’m not.
The Congressman’s votes against gay rights no more made his private, consensual sexual life a legitimate public issue than Bill Clinton’s pro-feminist issues stances made his tomcatting a legitimate public issue.
And, unlike Kos, I’m glad he resigned in time to allow the recruitment of a Republican candidate to replace him, giving the voters of his district an actual choice about who is to represent them. It’s called “democracy,” and I’m (mostly) for it.
