alt.politics.republicans

"HIGH COUNTRY" wrote in message
news: $ @ ...
> It's Sept. 25, meaning that Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) will officially
> give up his Senate seat in just five days, right? I wouldn't bet on it.
>
> Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig declined to say Tuesday whether he
> would resign his seat as planned if his guilty plea stemming from a
> Minneapolis bathroom sex sting is not overturned this week.
>
> "We are waiting for the legal determinations and I have nothing more to
> say," Craig told reporters Tuesday.
>
> The senator would not comment on what he would do if the court case were
> not decided by Sunday, the original date of his planned resignation from
> the Senate.
>
> A county judge in Minnesota will hear Craig's case tomorrow morning,
> though it's unclear when we'll hear a final ruling. Craig will not attend
> the court hearing, preferring instead to act like a normal senator on
> Capitol Hill.
>
> Not that he's necessarily welcome. Reporters asked Senate Minority Leader
> Mitch McConnell about Craig's uncertain future, and The Hill said
> McConnell "appeared visibly unnerved" by the question, before saying, "I
> really don't have anything to add on that issue to what I said a couple of
> weeks ago."
>
> The prosecutor in Minneapolis, meanwhile, has plenty to say.
>
> /leading-the-news/
>
> I was thinking about this last week, but I just figured that Bush would
> consider a pardon tacit approval of the behavior everyone knows Craig is
> guilty of .
>
> I'm sure he's glad that this has taken some media attention away from him
> and Iraq. By pardoning, Bush brings himself into a story he doesn't want
> part of.
>
> Besides, Bush reserves his pardons for those who commit treason on his
> behalf, not those looking for love in all the wrong public places.
>
> This is the same Larry Craig who voted against habeas corpus the other
> day.

Whatever happens, there'll always be a seat for him in the Minneapolis
Airport men's restroom.