Craig ethics complaint backfires on GOP

[ProSense]

Craig ethics complaint backfires on GOP

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer
24 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Larry who?

Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though they hardly know him. They want voters to forget him, too.

But they privately acknowledge that an earlier strategy to drive Craig from office has backfired, sticking them with an open-ended ethics investigation likely to keep the issue before the public for months.

Senate Republicans demanded the Ethics Committee inquiry into his sex-sting conviction last summer in hopes of forcing Craig to resign. He essentially called their bluff this month when he reversed his decision to resign Sept. 30 unless a court let him drop his guilty plea.

Now Republicans are powerless to stop a process almost certain to do more political damage to the party in general than to a retiring senator.

more

Can't get rid of enough Roadblock Republicans!

[Turbineguy]

1. Thank you Senator Craig

for your stance!

[Pab Sungenis]

11. That's what got him into trouble

in the first place. His wide stance!

[Ian David]

2. Let me be clear. He is not gay. He never has been gay. He loves his wife.

And so do I.

[SpiralHawk]

3. republicons being forced to eat their own bile

urp ! How disgusting for this amoral lot of hypocrites

[gatorboy]

4. I'm surprised they haven't tried to censure him.

Aren't they big on that?

[seemslikeadream]

5. Hang in there Larry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWPTtJ-Z4lU&eurl=

[Swamp Rat]

8. LOLOLOL!!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ProSense]

9. .

:rofl:

[ProSense]

6. LaRocco for Senate

Idaho: LaRocco for Senate

[globalvillage]

10. Love the "Working for Senate" Campaign

I like him! The Other Larry for Senate!

[Richard Steele]

7. Rec #5- to the "greatest page" with you!. nm

[Janice325]

12. Glad to be number 10.

Thanks, Larry!
I can't wait to see what his next interview will be like. :rofl:

[libodem]

13. Friends and I were

discussing this last night. We have another friend who teaches abroad every year. This year she is in Pakistan. When she says she's from Idaho they say oh, fagot, Larry Craig, we have heard of him. No, kidding in Pakistan. He hasn't just put Idaho on the map in the US but the whole world. We were keeping this place a secret. Why does he get to tie up congress and have HIS grievances aired when the SCOTUS struck down the rights of detainees to be heard. Which is the REAL case of justice needs to be practiced. This world is bass-ackwards. He is so too gay, always has been, and always will be.

[ProSense]

14. Repubs lining up to challenge Craig

Former elk rancher plans Senate run

Saturday, October 13, 2007

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Former eastern Idaho elk rancher Rex Rammell says he'll seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2008 -- and he's filming a new DVD about his life.

Rammell got attention last year when more than a hundred of his elk escaped, prompting then-Gov. Jim Risch to order an emergency hunt. Risch is also running for embattled Sen. Larry Craig's seat.

Rammell says he's been battling for his elk ranch -- and property rights -- for the past seven years.

He says his DVD will be called "Something Worth Fighting For: The Rex Rammell Story."

more