Craig Reconsiders: Resignation "Not Such A Foregone Conclusion Anymore"

AP:

Lawyers for Sen. Larry Craig asked the Senate ethics committee Wednesday to reject a complaint based on the Idaho Republican's guilty plea in a police undercover operation in an airport men's room, saying the events were "wholly unrelated" to official duties.

"Assertion of jurisdiction over this matter by the committee would be literally unprecedented and would create deleterious consequences for the Senate as a whole," the lawyers wrote.

Read the whole story: AP

Comments

[Clayton]

03:32 PM on 09/06/2007

1. He "PLED" GUILTY, NOT "PLEADED" GUILTY!

2. Watch out, every bar in the US is going to have problems if "flirting" is a crime!

3. Spector is stirring the pot of the religious right. Remember how they fucked him when the republicans were in charge. This is his pay-back!

4. This guy is a Senator in the US Senate! Who believes he doesn't know the law and the results of a guilty plea??

5. Craig will be switching to the Democratic Party next week.

6. The military report is due NEXT week. This in the head line and among the talking heads will keep Iraqi OFF the front pages!!

7. What is it with Republicans and bathrooms? Haven't they ever been to a bar??

8. Isn't Craig bi-sexual??

9. How did Bill Clinton cause this??


This subject is still fun!!

[squareyellowpaper]

10:54 AM on 09/06/2007

The Republican presidential candidates want nothing to do with Craig.

The RNC wants nothing to do with Craig.

However, the Repubicans in the Senate don't know which way to turn and the Democrats are going to hold their feet to the coals.

[squareyellowpaper]

10:48 AM on 09/06/2007

Watch out, Mitch! You are becoming too obvious! Does Craig have you over a barrel?

This is just getting started! By the time the election rolls along, everything should be out in the air.

[Independent voter]

10:39 AM on 09/06/2007

Isn't it nice to know that the people of the great state of Idaho are content to be represented by a ranting homophobe who trolls for gay sex in toilets.

I don't think I'll be visiting Idaho anytime soon.

[maddog2112]

08:30 AM on 09/06/2007

Is it possible to look into the flight schedules for that day and trip to determine if his extended layover in that airport was an inconvenience of flying today, or scheduled deliberatly to give him time to play in the bathrooms?

[LITU]

08:26 AM on 09/06/2007

Now Craig's lawyer says the arrest was unconstitutional. If you tried that line on an arresting cop in Spokane Washington, you'd get shot in the back!

[maddog2112]

08:25 AM on 09/06/2007

Maybe Craig could call on the Republican justice system and Bush could pardon him too!

I would love to hear a reporter ask Bush if he intends to pardon Craig.

[doinaheckofajob]

07:30 AM on 09/06/2007

Oink oink. Repiglicans are filthy creatures.

[wotcanisay]

06:44 AM on 09/06/2007

Great!

This "reconsidering" is going to be a Terri Schiavo moment.

IMHO, Katrina (non-)response, Terri Schiavo, Mark Foley and of course the Iraq war collectively were the reason for the American voters' disenchantment with the Republicans.

This "reconsidering" is a merely a representation of:

1) How politicians think that they can get away with murder - remember Craig's "how about that" to the policeman after showing his business card.

2) How politicians want to stick to their seats no matter what - plead guilty but claim "not guilty". If the guilty plea is overturned this is straight off an example of what a tainted and biased towards republicans judiciary can do - thanks to Gone-zo.

THANK YOU MR CRAIG FOR PROVIDING US, DEMOCRATS WITH THIS TERRI SCHIAVO MOMENT.

[micdago]

06:41 AM on 09/06/2007

Hypo-Christians:

Deny ...
Lie ...
Cry ...
Fly.

The Right is abandoning you Larry, not because you lied, but because you're a homo.

[burneb]

01:46 AM on 09/06/2007

Courts do not want to accept a guilty plea from anyone who thinks they might not be guilty. Apparently Craig had some 6 weeks after his arrest to consider his plea before signing a statement that he fully understood his guilty plea and would not make future claims of innocence. NOW he thinks he might rescind his plea, or that any court would let him?

And this is a guy who has been a Congressman since 1980? (5 terms in the House, almost 3 terms in the Senate) A guy who can have the top lawyers? (even Michael Vick’s lawyer)

Forget the gay issue, or even the hypocrisy issue. This is a case of gross mental incompetence and stupidity. Idaho must be letting their potatoes vote!

[Libertysconscience]

12:07 AM on 09/06/2007

America's failed GOP Leadership: Forsaking Honor for Power

Time and time again the American public and world is seeing the seamier side of the GOP leadership at its best-->when it fights to retain power at any cost. It's like a thuggish replay of Faust but don't pass the spuds. This issue is about the lengths a man who for 27 yrs used or abused the entrusted power of one of the most respected public service posts in America for personal gain and cover-up of personal shame.

The state of Idaho will now bear the shame of their senator with a predilection to peeking with his blue eyes thru airport toilet stalls attempting in a cleaner way of saying it, "getting a groove on with a stranger in the disabled stall built for two”. Many will have to back a senator who reneged on his own ‘sworn’ admission of pleading guilty weeks after the incident having plenty of time to seek counsel after which declaring his ‘intent to resign and not being gay while never declaring he wasn't bi-sexual’ while knowing he left a taped message declaring he had no intention of stepping down from power. Since the threat of intimidation in flashing his Senatorial card before who he thought were small time cops didn’t work, he has now lawyered up to destroy a law enforcement officer in order to retain his political power. The one problem with making good on the implied threat that night is that if the senator wins, he loses the respect earned over 27 years because working folks know all too well how powerful folks got hall passes for 8 yrs now, that a common voter, even one from the hood never gets. Recall the unjust max sentences rendered to both a MS high school college bound black male student's consensual sex and six racially mockingly taunted black male Jena, La. high school students reminiscent of infamous southern juries and judges depicted in "To Kill a Mocking Bird". They weren’t a senator with powerful clout to squash a cop to retain power.

[MoeJava]

11:58 PM on 09/05/2007

He really hasnt thought this through.
If he wants to overturn his Guilty plea, that opens him up to testifying in court, under oath. Then the Prosecutor can introduce the fact that 1) He tried using his power (via a business card and saying "What do you think of THAT?") to intimidate the Cop. The trial will no longer be a trivial misdemeanor charge.
2) This opens the door to the original "Invasion of Privacy" charge - which requires a year in jail and a heavy fine.

If he gets his guilty plea overturned, what about all the other people who will wish to get their guilty pleas reversed also? Or is that just for Senators and Rich people?

[Ginzaman]

11:30 PM on 09/05/2007

Like it's not messed up as it is already?

[coyote4]

10:16 PM on 09/05/2007

.
19 pages! Can you believe it?

Republican Hypocrisy is so over.