Be on the lookout for more probing questions surrounding Senator Craig's de facto dismissal from the US Senate when the good old boys return from their vacation this week.
Of interest, I think, is the process by which the GOP leadership circled the wagons and decided to purge themselves of this guy.
Certainly there's more to it than the homosexual nature of the admitted offense. If they knew that this guy was a ticking time bomb of sorts for some time, it begs the question that Robert Novak asks this morning....why was he not gotten rid of long ago?
It doesn't take a Republican of unique gifts to win the seat in Idaho of all places, so it's not like another reliable soldier is going to be hard to find. And if friendship or affection for a colleague is the stated reason for keeping him around, we have to ask what the shelf life on that kind of friendship really is.
We're going to find that even though the GOP could have handled the situation worse by holding on to this tumor for a little bit longer, they could have avoided it altogether by cleaning house earlier on. Ineptness and/or cockiness ruled the roost again, if you'll pardon the pun.
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Foley 2.0?
I bet it will slide though, bigger news, like the new ipods will steal the show.
Game's not over...Craig is reported to be reconsidering his "intent" to step down...
This should be good.
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