Was it Over When the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!

As we now know, Larry Craig may have decided to fight this one out a little bit.

I'm not the only one who noticed on Saturday that he said it was his intent to resign from the Senate on 30-September rather than an all-out promise to follow through on that intent.

Personally, I feel bad for the guy. While I have neither the evidence nor the expertise to say that his guilty plea in the misdemeanor should be overturned, it's clear that the GOP threw him out like yesterday's laundry and don't care a bit for a man when he's been kicked (or kicked himself).

But maybe we're now finding out, again, that Larry Craig does not take certain things sitting down.

So my take, for both the sake of the great theater it will provide as well as the pleasure we might take in administering some of their own medicine back to them, Go Larry Craig! Make it a drop-down, drag-out fight. Let's air all the dirty laundry.

One can't help but wonder if the scene in Senator Craig's office over the weekend resembled this one from Animal House. At the end, some bright-eyed, eager staffer might have even quoted Otter...

In this case, I think we have to go all out.

I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture
be done on somebody's part.

We're just the guys to do it.

What Did the GOP Leadership Know and When Did They Know it?

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.

Am I The Only One Who Wonders if Tony Orlando Had a Role in the Larry Craig Sex-in-a-Stall Strategy

When I read how one is to solicit sex in a public bathroom...by tapping three times, I immediately wondered if this was inspired by the Tony Orlando and Dawn classic, Knock Three Times.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I don't think so.