Craig Not Quitting?!?!
Well, if nothing else, SF spoke too soon 
Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.
“It’s not such a foregone conclusion anymore, that the only thing he could do was resign,” Sidney Smith, Craig’s spokesman in Idaho’s capital, told The Associated Press.“We’re still preparing as if Senator Craig will resign Sept. 30, but the outcome of the legal case in Minnesota and the ethics investigation will have an impact on whether we’re able to stay in the fight”and stay in the Senate,” Smith said.
Craig, a Republican who has represented Idaho in Congress for 27 years, announced Saturday that he intends to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30. But since then, he’s hired a prominent lawyer to investigate the possibility of reversing his plea, his spokesman said.
Craig was a no-show Tuesday as Congress reconvened after a summer break and it wasn’t clear whether he’ll return at all since deciding to resign over his guilty plea in a sex sting this summer at the Minneapolis airport.
Another spokesman, Dan Whiting in Washington, said Tuesday that Craig was expected to spend the week in Idaho as the Senate votes on spending bills for veterans and other programs. Whiting did not rule out Craig’s returning to Washington before the end of the month.
A telephone call Craig received last week from Sen. Arlen Specter, R- Pa., urging him to consider fighting for his seat is affecting Craig’s decision to reconsider his resignation, Smith said.
“It was a little more cut and dried a few days ago,” Smith said. “There weren’t many options. He was basically going to have to step aside. Now, there’s a little more to it.”
On Tuesday, Specter, senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, suggested Craig’s GOP colleagues who pressured him last week to resign should re-examine the facts surrounding his arrest June 11.
“The more people take a look at the situation, there may well be second thoughts,” said Specter, a former prosecutor. If Craig had not pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge and instead demanded a trial, “I believe he would have been exonerated,” Specter said.
It just occured to him to hire an attorney? He should have done that the day he was arrested. To add insult to injury, Specter is defending him? This is beyond a joke at this point. There was no crime committed in the bathroom, but to make a mockery of his position, as I feel he is doing, is wrong. If he wasn’t smart enough to hire an attorney, he is not smart enough to make decisions that affect this country.
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HotAir has a great roundup including video of Specter making the case for an un-resignation!
September 4, 2007 - 10:39 PM on September 4th, 2007
“Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest…”
Oh, PLEASE.
Didn’t he say he was “reconsidering his decision” to PLEAD GUILTY, too?
LOL…come on. This guy likes to “reconsider” too much.
The man is stripped of all his Senate committee duties, and the Republican Party will run a well funded candidate against him in the next election if he decides to stay and not resign.
The man is FINISHED.
I honestly do feel a bit sorry for him and his family.
September 4, 2007 - 10:51 PM on September 4th, 2007
I agree that he has shown such extremely poor judgement that he is not fit on that basis alone to represent anyone.
Of course if we apply that to Congress in general, most of them would probably have to be removed. Starting with the Democrite leadership.
September 5, 2007 - 05:52 AM on September 5th, 2007
SFL, let’s see you hold DEMOCRATs to the same standard starting with Boxer and Feinstein.
September 5, 2007 - 10:54 AM on September 5th, 2007
Have you ever been accused of something you didn’t do. No matter how much evedience they say they have, you know your inocent. Sen Craig, if your not guilty, don’t quit! It took four years to prove my sons innocence. They found the guy who did it and sent him to jail. Never once did he get an apology for the four lost years. And the news reporters should be ashamed. You all just love a story, whether it’s true or not.
September 5, 2007 - 11:21 AM on September 5th, 2007
OK PCD…let me know when Boxer and Feinstein PLED GUILTY TO A CRIME, then come back to me with that.
September 5, 2007 - 11:26 AM on September 5th, 2007
OK SFL, Boxer admitted she lied about setting up Bruce Herschensohn with that KABC talk show host. Plenty of crimes in that caper. Feinstein resigned from a committee that oversaw contracts to her husband’s company. Where is your outrage? I’ll tell you where, in you hypocrite closet.
September 5, 2007 - 11:30 AM on September 5th, 2007
And they PLED GUILTY TO A CRIME, where? when?
September 5, 2007 - 11:56 AM on September 5th, 2007
SFL, you are a hypocrite. Bubba pled guilty and didn’t resign.
September 5, 2007 - 06:49 PM on September 5th, 2007
Helping Larry Craig Stay in Office Without Hurting Republicans
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September 6, 2007 - 06:35 AM on September 6th, 2007
Republicans take out their trash.
Democrats re-elect theirs.
September 7, 2007 - 07:27 AM on September 7th, 2007
#4:
Craig’s a big mo or he’d never have admitted any wrong-doing in the first place. He’s back pedaling since to be a homosexual to his kind is a fate worse than death.
Damage done Craig. You got your finger “caught in the dike” or more appropriate “caught with you pants down”.
Dude. …. you’re gay. Embrace it.
September 7, 2007 - 08:06 AM on September 7th, 2007
11, Pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for arguing with a cop is not admiting you are gay.
You are an idiot. Deal with that.