Can We Still Trust Straights As Leaders?

The shocking revelation this week that all the Republican House leaders who enabled and covered-up the internet stalking  by a House member were, in fact, known heterosexuals raises the unfortunate but necessary question - "can straights be trusted to lead anymore?" I wish I could report that this phenemenon of mal-governence by straights was restricted to the current scandal but,alas, one only has to look at the incompetance, immorality, and sexually of all our current leaders: Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Brownie, - the list is endless - and you will see a glaring pattern emerge. Every last one of them is straight.

     Now you might be tempted to add that they are also all Republicans, and I will concede that the quality of the straight pool improves dramatically when that subset is removed, as it soon will be. Nevertheless, problems still remain. For instance, I give you, and with a no-return policy, J. Lieberman(admittedly bi-political.) Massachusetts has produced J. Kerrey and B. Frank, both good men,but who is the more forceful(and entertaining), who the more equivocating on important issues.
     Nor is it only recent events that demand fuller examination. History provides such examples as Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan,Pol Pot, Stalin - again all straight - and probably even Hitler himself! (as well as all those "not since Hitler"s that seem to arise each year). I'd include R Nixon, but revisionists have posited that he more likely was asexual.
     Leaving aside the political for the business realm, we find such heterosexuals as K Lay, J Abramoff, -again the list is endless.(I omit D Trump because I refuse to contemplate him in any context,sexual or otherwise.) Turning now to family matters please recall that Susan Smith murdered her children to make herself more available to a male, not female ex-lover. While it would be impractical to bar heterosexual women from bearing children, surely we can revisit our adopton laws to effect a lesbians only policy.
    Yes, we all know that sweet straight couple down the street or close friend from college. It would be wrong to paint all heterosexuals with a single brush - which is why I advocate a compassionate tolerance. But something must be done. One suggestion is to institute re-orientation camps using such techniques as aversion therapy. Granted these have been notoriously ineffective when applied to a gay-to-straight conversion.But it might be much more fruitful, so to speak, if applied in the opposite direction. As far as I know, it hasn't even been tried!  
    A final note to messers Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, et al - all(presumably) straight. It was Adam and Eve who fucked up and got the human race booted out of the earthly paradise. Adam and Steve no doubt would still be contentedly gardening to this day.  

•  nice snark

  and the wapo website has a front page story headlined "Open and Closeted Lives of Gay Congressman" (i'm not giving the easy link, because it doesn't deserve the hits!), once again making it seem as if the story is about gays rather than a predator and his enablers. despicable.

  by Turkana on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:25:22 PM PDT

•  Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot...

  ...heterosexuals all.

  Also, a little known fact: All great civilizations had  a clear majority of heterosexuals before they collapsed.

  I'm just sayin'...

  by daulton on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:30:40 PM PDT

  •  Except the Greeks!

    by mr crabby on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:33:00 PM PDT

•  Should we trust men to lead anymore?

  I think not. As a man, i speak from a unique perspective when i say that women should rise up and take over our govenment. We would very much appreciate it.

  Among the changes..

  Men would no longer be expected, if they lived in middle or upper class households, to have jobs. Their primary function is to stay at home and take care of the children. When the wife returns home, the man's primary responsability is her hapiness.

  When any wars occurred, only women would be drafted to serve in combat. However, if women were in control of the world, some would imagine that there would be much fewer wars

  Men would no longer need to feel pressured into feeling insecure about how well they play football, how tough they are in the school yard, ect. Instead, they will be asked to obsessively worry about their clothes and if they're too fat. Women, on the other hand, are free to watch football games and drink massive amounts of beer without a care in the world.

  Let the new world order begin! I'm ready and willing to "honor and obey..."

  by Mikesco on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:34:47 PM PDT

  •  Sounds sensible, Thatcher notwithstanding,

    as long as we can bar the Concerned Women of America.

    by mr crabby on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:40:38 PM PDT

  •  "Egalia's Daughters" a laugh-out-loud satire

    in novel form, based on something very, very your premise.  

    Here's the publisher's synopis:

    In the land of Egalia, the rules of society are different. Here, it is the wim who wield the power, control the government and the economy... while the menwim stay at home, minding the children and curling their beard bows. Everyone knows that menwim are inferior to wim--it's the way of nature.

    But something is stirring in Egalia. The menwim are organizing to challenge the social structure and are calling themselves masculinists. They are demanding some answers to outrageous questions: Why must menwim grow up to be housebounds? Why should wim be the ones who can run off to sea and hold jobs, while the menwim must stay at home with no say in things at all? Why must menwim wear pehoes when wim get to wear what they want? And why is it that menwim should wish for nothing more than fatherhood-protection with a strong wom? Who says that a manwom is nothing without his protective wom? Menwim have rights too!

    The masculist movement has Egalia in an uproar. When will all this menwim's lib nonsense stop? Where will all these ridiculous notions lead?

    Buy it from the e-tailer of your choice here

    by lgmcp on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:55:42 PM PDT

•  I'm voting for Cylons. nt

  by Inland on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:47:12 PM PDT

•  Then there's the "recruitment" issue

  or, as I like to say ...

  Heterosexuals HAVE to reproduce ...
  because they CAN'T recruit!

  by lgmcp on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 02:58:00 PM PDT

•  Baseless accusations!

  You have provided no proof that any of these men are straight.

  by Sam Berdoux on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 03:21:43 PM PDT

  •  Well we will see how many of them sue

    for defamation of character.

    by mr crabby on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 03:28:58 PM PDT

    •  Or go into rehab now that they

      have been exposed.

      by mr crabby on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 03:30:41 PM PDT

      •  Which brings me to a point I meant to

        make in the text(as well as pads my response count) - I don't normally approve of outing someone's sexual orientation but in these casas, the enormity of their crimes makes them fair game.

        by mr crabby on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 03:35:28 PM PDT