November 3,4,5, 2006 -- GOP's Dick in Butts today. Amid the male prostitution tryst scandal involving evangelical Christian leader Rev. Ted Haggard, the recently-resigned President of the National Association of Evangelicals and pastor of the Colorado Springs New Life Church, Vice President Dick Cheney will stage a media event today at Butts Army Air Field in Haggard's hometown of Colorado Springs.
Not surprisingly, James Dobson of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, has come to Haggard's defense. Dobson, it will be recalled, once had this bit of advice for fathers of sons:
". . . the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."
They are Dobson's words in case you thought you were reading the instant messages of Mark Foley.

Dick in Butts, Haggard in trouble, and Dobson in the shower.