Sen. Craig likely to make announcement Saturday morning

[Ediacara]

Source: Idaho Statesman

Gregory Hahn and Erika Bolstad - Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 08/31/07

Sen. Larry Craig plans to make an announcement Saturday about his future.

"We haven't quite scheduled anything, but we're looking at doing something tomorrow," said Craig's spokesman Sid Smith. "We haven't set a time or place yet."

The clamor for Craig to step down intensified today, with the news that the Republican Party had been prepared to issue a statement calling for his resignation, a GOP source said today.

But they didn’t put it out because “party leaders had received an indication that Craig was going to step down,” on his own, the source told McClatchy Newspapers.

The Republican Party chairman, Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, was on a plane headed back from Jordan, and was not expected to comment until he returned to the U.S. Until now, Martinez has said only that Craig’s arrest and guilty plea is “disappointing” and a “sad situation.

Read more: http://idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/146747.html

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The Idaho Statesman had previously indicated that Gov Otter seemed ready to appoint Lt Gov Risch as Craig's replacement when this happens.

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Will it be from a pubic bathroom?

Did I say pubic, I meant public...yes, public. :D

[Swede]

2. He'll move to his own private Idaho,I imagine.

nt

[Fridays Child]

3. Just in time for the Sunday shows to pick over the dying corpse that IS Craig's political career...

[whistle]

4. Craig should save his breathe and just quietly leave the senate and politics

...for good. Isn't he supposed to spend time in jail?

[DURHAM D]

5. Please - say it isn't so.

I want him to hang on until November of 2008. Please. Please Please. :spank:

[calimary]

6. Hiding out under the cover of a long holiday weekend. So there won't

be as much press. He certainly has taken a page from this White House. Bad news? Try to dump it on Friday or Saturday.

Except where he miscalculated was that this was a SEX scandal. SEX, SEX, SEX. That's what EVERYBODY can get their brains around, whether they're friends or foes, media or civilian, left or wrong, informed or uninformed. It's one of those grab-yer-gut, fits-on-a-bumper-sticker stories that everyone gets. And gets titilated over. And enjoys gossiping over.

Sex scandals NEVER just "go away." Not in THIS puritanical, prissy-ass, bedroom-busybody, twisted political era.

[swag]

7. Hang tough, Larry!

Show 'em what you're made of!

[brentspeak]

8. Aw, come on, Larry! Don't let the GOP run you out of town!

[Faygo Kid]

9. Damn, I bet $5 it would be today. Sure thing, though.

He must have really dug in his heels to make it as far as Saturday. I have seen "sure things," and Larry Craig's resignation was as much a sure thing as anything anytime - even with the reich wing yahoo talk radio nuts tying themselves up in knots trying to back him ("What about Clinton?. . .").

As ever, Sean Hannity was the surest barometer of the GOP power brokers. When he led with the story on Hannity and ? last night, you knew the marching orders had gone out: Cut Craig Loose.

[Hepburn]

10. AP Reporting Craig will announce tomorrow that he is resigning.

Source: MSNBC News....Report on Tucker

He is not merely announcing he will not run again, he is announcing that he is resigning.

No link yet.

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Bu-bye, Larry.

[NMDemDist2]

11. cue Queen

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, Im gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust

[kestrel91316]

23. Da dum dum dum! Another one bites the dust!

Somebody else take it from here. Everybody sing!

[musiclawyer]

12. Wish this had come out in October 2008

[rodeodance]

13. local news nbc just announced it.

[brentspeak]

14. What a loser.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. now watch the rethuglicans come out w/ new meme

and attack us for every single thing they can think of, or make up. They are energized, and they need a target.

unfortunately, our dems are a juicy one.

Of course, they will call this
"old hat"
"over"
"yesterday's news"
"history"
and more, except when they feel like whipping out Bill Clinton's penis again.

[rodeodance]

16. national nbc news being cautious ---just saying AP reported it.

[rodeodance]

17. spokeman for Craig saying How quickly his friends have deserted him.

[Hepburn]

20. What friends???

He's a Repig....they eat their own regularly.

[partylessinOhio]

18. Craig resignation confirmed on ABC Evening News just now.

Clarification: Craig will resign tomorrow.

[Hand]

19. Well-p...

Don't let the back door hit ya where the good lord split ya, sez I. :evilgrin:

[SoFlaJet]

21. Boomp boomp boomp...another one bites the dust

.......and another one's gone, and another one's gone...

[edbermac]

22. Why?? He didn't do anything wrong!!

It's the Clinton's! The Gay/Lesbian Mafia! The Ultra-Left Wing Media! The Godless Secular Progressives! The Democrat Party! The Tofu-Eating Tree-Hugging Whale-Saving Commie-Peacenik Hippies!

IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT!!!!

:sarcasm:

[Elidor]

24. I will say this

While I loathe him probably more than he loathes himself, and while I think he's an arrogant jackass, I wouldn't wish the media crucible on anyone. He's taken a real battering this week. We are watching not just the end of a successful career, but the destruction of a man. And that should always be a sobering thing, in the end.

I don't wish Senator Craig ill. Despite the carnival hilarity on the surface of it all, it is really a very sad story. Few will thank him for his years of service. Few will remain his friends. He is about to be a very lonely man, going quietly into that good night.

[Ediacara]

25. I certainly wouldn't wish to be in his shoes right now

But, you reap what you sow.

[Critters2]

27. I've thought about this, too.

He's been his own undoing, but he's undone nonetheless. I find it sad.

[Divine Discontent]

26. too bad it wasn't a DEM governor who decided!

but it's nice to see the repukes get HAMMERED, and I mean HAMMERED with this anti-gay rule of law, basically, that they've frolicked in for votes for the past 20 years.... even if we get another repuke senator in replacement

[MaineDem]

28. The GOP would never be pushing for his resignation

If they were going to lose a seat they'd figure a way to keep Craig int he Senate.

Think of Vitter!

[Divine Discontent]

29. right on! n/t

[Radio_Lady]

30. Craig is apparently staying on until September 30th... will he show his face in Washington after...

Labor Day? That's what CNN was chomping on early Saturday evening.