Sen. Patrick Leahy's buddy Arlen Specter has gone and urged Sen. Larry Craig to reconsider resigning the Senate over his airport bathroom incident. Makes you wonder if Sen. Spector will do the same on Alberto Gonzales's resignation.
“The more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts,” said Specter, a former prosecutor, said Craig. If Craig had not pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, “I believe he would have been exonerated,” Specter said.
Craig's spokespeople indicated last night he might just fight this thing instead of resigning.
Also yesterday, Craig's children told the Associated Press that they grilled him about what happened there in the airport. “Our conclusion was there was no wrongdoing there,” said 33-year-old Jay Craig.
It might have gone a long way if Sen. Craig had shared that same defense with the public - and his Republican colleagues who, other than Specter, dropped him lead-balloon style.
You have to wonder, though, how a guy who is so indecisive (I should plead guilty; no I shouldn't. I should resign; no I shouldn't) managed to reach the U.S. Senate.
- Terri Hallenbeck
