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9.05.2007

 

Should he stay or go now?

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

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David Letterman and Jay Leno must have paid Larry Craig to say he's reconsidering resigning - imagine the jokes they will have about this story on their next shows.
 
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If pleading guilty to a crime disqualifies somebody to be a U.S. Senator, Ted Kennedy should have resigned 38 years ago, after he pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident on Chappaquiddick.
 
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In a decent world, a Senator could be gay and be headed home eager to see his partner and family. But Senator Craig and his crowd make makes that impossible. Gay Senators must pretend to be heterosexual and live a lie with their opposite sex partners and families and lurk in the shadows with anonymous sexual liasons for fear of being found out. Whether he is gay or not, he lies in a bed of his own making. He deserves the mess he's in. Vitter does, too.
 
What a non-issue. What a screwed up sense of what's important.
 
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Why are dragging Vermont state politicians into this? It's totally irrelevant.
 
Jim Douglas and Larry Craig: Seperated at Birth!
 
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Man. The Gannett Gestapo is alive and well. Monitoring blog posts must be more important than researching and writing actual news.
 
Accusing Jim Douglas of being homosexual because you don't like his politics is about as low as anyone can get. You're a class act. I hope you're really happy with yourself.
 
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Being gay isn't as low as you can go. Railroading Craig out of the senate like that is as low as you can go, even though Craig cast the most despicable votes imagineable particularly on gay rights.
 
"Railroading Craig out of the senate"

What rock have you been living under? Craig pled guilty on his own you idiot. No one railroaded him. These GOP lackies always have to blame the Dems no matter what.
 
Being Gay is fine but soliciting strangers in bathrooms is not.
 
You're the idiot for making unwarranted assumptions. The OP's statement that Craig was railroaded out of the Senate (a statement I would not necessarily agree with) does not in any way state or imply that it was the Democrats who did the "railroading" (and in fact it was not -- it was Republican senators). There is nothing in the OP's statement that reveals he intended to blame Democrats for the alleged "railroading." You just automatically assumed the OP was blaming the Democrats, so you could lash back at "GOP lackies." And in fact because it was the Repubs in the Senate who cried for Craig's ouster, your statement that "GOP lackies" would be defending Craig shows that you open your mouth and hurl slogans before you think.
 
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