TPM: The GOP's best anti-Craig weapon = "Craig seems immune to peer pressure"

[L. Coyote]

In an ironic way, some Rs are beginning to appreciate how Dems feel about getting rid of Rs.
They wish they could just get rid of one of their own, Sen. Craig, and he just won't go away.

If it wasn't such a serious matter, it would also be funny! :rofl:

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The GOP's best anti-Craig weapon
By Steve Benen - 09.30.07
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/054586.php


It must be terribly frustrating for the Senate Republican leadership, knowing there's not much they can do to force embattled Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) to go away.

The party can take away his committee assignments, but that's already happened and it didn't have much of an effect. Officials can withhold re-election campaign funds next year, but in Craig's case, that probably won't matter. Republican leaders can pretend he doesn't exist, stop returning his calls, and no longer let him sit at the cool kids' table in the Senate dining room, but Craig seems immune to peer pressure at this point.

GOP leaders do have one tool left -- an ethics committee investigation -- and the party will apparently use it to make Craig absolutely miserable.

"Worried that the disgraced lawmaker intends to remain in the Senate indefinitely, they are threatening to notch up the public humiliation by seeking an open ethics hearing on the restroom scandal ...."

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[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. Oh my, any R "ethics" committee has met their match with Craig.

:popcorn: MKJ

on edit:

irresistible force meet unmovable object. :-)

[opihimoimoi]

2. Graig??? What about them others....Fowley for one? Vitter for 2, and the Big Picture

of whats best for the Nation?

These guys are only interested in continuing the fraud that is the GOP....they are Phonies to the Bone....

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. I can only hope Craig will be the reason they convene a "naughty boy" committee.

Sound and fury, with a dash of schedenfraude. :-) MKJ

[opihimoimoi]

6. They trying to clean up the act by dumping Craig unner de bus..Too Little too Late

The GOP have revealed themselves to be Disgustingly Evil SelfCentered ASSHOLEs

They need to be Banished to TUVA...forever.....

[L. Coyote]

3. Imagine the allegation of "interference with privacy, peeping into stall" discussion

That will make the late night comics start send contributions to the Rs :rofl:

[acmavm]

5. Isn't the repubic party and anything called 'ethics' an oxymoron of the

most extreme?

[L. Coyote]

7. Indeed. It is the Senate Ethics Comm. I don't think there is an R Ethics group.

Searched "Republican ethics" and found the opposite:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Republican+ethics

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. Just took it from the OP article.

GOP leaders do have one tool left -- an ethics committee investigation -- and the party will apparently use it to make Craig absolutely miserable.

"Worried that the disgraced lawmaker intends to remain in the Senate indefinitely, they are threatening to notch up the public humiliation by seeking an open ethics hearing on the restroom scandal ...."

The article's slant indicates this is GOP driven...MKJ