It's My Prerogative

This time yesterday it looked like WideStance would not go gently into that good night, and in the morning his colleagues were not happy about being held hostage. Then the Senate Ethics Committee allowed the case against Craig to go forward, and then (this is fantasy) someone got a hold of the Senator from Idaho in a dark room and showed him some pictures from public bathrooms around the nation and...

Sen. Larry Craig has all but dropped any notion of trying to complete his term, and is focused on helping Idaho send a new senator to Washington within a few weeks, his top spokesman said Thursday.

"The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho," Craig spokesman Dan Whiting told the Associated Press.

The only circumstances in which Craig might try to complete his term, Whiting said, would require the overturning by Sept. 30 of his conviction for disorderly conduct in a men's room at the Minneapolis airport, as well as Senate GOP leaders' agreement to restore Craig's committee leaderships posts taken away this week.

Those scenarios are unlikely, Whiting said.

World's fastest trial balloon...

How many times have you seen a conviction overturned within 25 days?