Craig Quits Quitting

Crooks and Liars has the video.

On this evening’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann quotes a breaking Associated Press story that Republican Senator, Larry Craig is reconsidering his resignation from the Senate.

Senator Larry Craig to resign Saturday

The Associated Press is reporting:

Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men's room, Republican officials said Friday.

Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, four state GOP officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Word of the resignation came four days after the disclosure that Craig had pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge arising out of his June 11 arrest during a lewd-conduct investigation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

The three-term Republican senator had maintained that he did nothing wrong except for making the guilty plea without consulting a lawyer. But he found almost no support among Republicans in his home state or Washington.

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter appeared Friday to have already settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations.

So there you have it! Too bad the 'Bush problem' can't be resolved as quickly.

Okay, the LAST on Sen Larry Craig

UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has "1999 Video: Republican Larry Craig Calls Bill Clinton “A Nasty, Bad Naughty Boy”

Tennessee Guerilla Women has a great video of "Rep. Barney Frank on Sen. Larry Craig & Other GOP Hypocrites (Real Time Video)"

The final word on Sen. Craig

Well, maybe the final word ... unless something else as funny as this surfaces. From Jesus' General we get the following message:

Larry Craig wants to punish nasty, bad, naughty boys

For the rest of the story, visit Jesus' General.

UPDATE: NBC News4 in DC is reporting that a DC man has come forward claiming that he had sex with the Senator in a men's room in Union Station. The report also aired tape of a younger Craig talking about a 1982 charge that he was involved in a gay sex scandal with Congressional Pages. Yikes! Senator Craig says he's not gay, but it sure looks like his boyfriend is!

Sen Craig BUSTED for Lewd Behavior

Someone needs to tell Sen. Larry Craig, (R-ID) that National Coming Out day is in October! It seems the Senator was arrested in an airport restroom for "lewd" behavior. The Senator says it was all a misunderstanding. Right.

Roll Call's web site, the DC newspaper that broke the story, must be overloaded with visitors -- so here is the story from USAToday:

Roll Call is reporting that Sen. Larry Craig, an Idaho Republican, was arrested earlier this summer in a men's room at the Minneapolis airport by an undercover officer investigating complaints about sexual activity. The Capitol Hill newspaper says it obtained the arrest report.

On Aug. 8 Craig pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. A 10-day sentence was stayed, but he received a year probation and paid more than $500 in fines and fees, Roll Call writes.

[From the police report:]
After he was arrested, Craig, who is married, was taken to the Airport Police Operations Center to be interviewed about the lewd conduct incident, according to the police report. At one point during the interview, Craig handed the plainclothes sergeant who arrested him a business card that identified him as a U.S. Senator and said, “What do you think about that?” the report states.

"What do you think about that?" Is it appropriate to include LOL in a blog post?

[Sgt. Dave] Karsnia entered the bathroom at noon that day and about 13 minutes after taking a seat in a stall, he stated he could see “an older white male with grey hair standing outside my stall.”

The man, who lingered in front of the stall for two minutes, was later identified as Craig.

“I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, ‘fidget’ with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes,” the report states.

Craig then entered the stall next to Karsnia’s ... “At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot.

Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge and paid more than $500 in fines. A ten-day jail sentence was stayed, but the Senator received a year probation.

Craig is up for reelection in 2008. Wonder how this is going to go over with voters.