GOP leader (Ensign) suggests Craig should resign

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

The Nevada senator who leads the Republican effort to reclaim the majority in the Senate in 2008 joined a growing number of leaders suggesting Sen. Larry Craig resign.
Sen. John Ensign told MSNBC today that it would be best if Craig resigns, MSNBC reported at 1 p.m. MDT.

Ensign's turning away from Craig is especially significant because he is chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Senate GOP's campaign arm that raises money and develops strategy to elect Republican senators. Ensign's statement suggests that Republicans fear that a prolonged battle by Craig to keep his seat will harm other GOP candidates in 2008.

Craig is among the GOP incumbents who face re-election next year. Craig said on Tuesday that he will announce next month whether he will run for a fourth term.

“I think the pressure will continue to build,” said Sen. John Ensign of Nevada, who chairs the party’s senatorial campaign committee.

Ensign told The Associated Press in his home state that Craig “admitted guilt, he pled guilty. It’s a little different situation than just being accused of something.”



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drip, drip, drip

[pocoloco]

1. I believe I would prefer that he hang around for a while!!!

He will just be replaced with another repug just as bad and with a heads up on the 2008 election!

[rox63]

2. Run, Larry, Run! n/t

[clayton72]

3. Thank you Senator Craig

Thank you for teaching us all how to solicit sex in the bathroom.

[EST]

5. Welcome to DU!

:toast:
In the eighties, I think, Playboy published an article about restroom pickups, only then the venues of choice were bowling alleys. The technique is apparetly the same.

I got the opportunity to explain what was going on to my wife and then I got to explain how the hell I knew.

[kestrel91316]

4. Poor John is in full damage control......

Hey, John, why don't you quit, too? Even NV could go blue if you guys keep this up.

BTW, keep your filthy casino mitts off White Pine County's aquifer.

[Zorro]

6. NBC Launches ‘To Catch a Senator’

From the inimitable Andy Borowitz...

http://www.borowitzreport.com/