The Party Of Accountability

Looks Like Larry Craig (R-WideStance) snuck a curveball by everybody.

Sen. Larry Craig won't resign from the Senate while awaiting a judge's ruling on his effort to get a guilty plea withdrawn in a restroom sex sting, a source said Wednesday.

Sen. Larry Craig is seeking to overturn his guilty plea stemming from an airport bathroom sex sting.

A judge in Minnesota heard arguments Wednesday afternoon about Craig's guilty plea in the case.

Craig had said he would resign from the Senate if he could not get the guilty plea overturned by September 30. But on Tuesday, Craig said he wouldn't resign until "legal determinations" are made.

For a Republican Party desperately seeking to evade responsibility for everything, from Iraq to corruption, this is par for the course. But you'd think this would be a nationwide outrage. The guy announced very specific groundrules for resignation, and now he's trying to pretend that he didn't and hope that everyone forgot about it. This is one man's ego against the whole country, mirroring the Republican Party's ego, also at odds with the country.

(Incidentally, I have consistently said that Craig did nothing illegal in that bathroom stall. But lying to a judge by pleading guilty because you wanted to keep your name out of the papers is actually the illegal act here, and Craig wants to remove responsibility for such poor judgment. There are no do-overs in the law, especially for a lawmaker.)