The Craig Witch Hunt

I'm coming around to the notion that Larry Craig didn't really commit a crime in Minneapolis. Yet he did plead guilty, which I think is a firing offense. Now the Senate GOP is coming around to that opinion. Sadly, while their statements reflect the position that they're calling for his resignation because he plead guilty, somehow I think it has more to do with him pleading guilty to possibly being gay.

UPDATE: Let me revise and extend. The act of pleading guilty to something is not the firing offense; Paul Begala just correctly observed on CNN that Bush and Cheney have pleaded guilty to the much more serious crime of drunk driving in the past. It's about Larry Craig claiming that he did nothing wrong, and yet pleading guilty to "get it out of the way," it's that stupidity that signals the end of his career. A lawmaker should have some slight sense of the law.

UPDATE II: Colorado Confidential has more.