According to one of Sen. Larry Craig's top aides http://FoxNews.com, the Happy Footed senator may now be reconsidering the resignation statement from this past Saturday.
We can thank good ol' Arlen Specter for this latest development.
On Fox News Sunday this past week, Sen. Specter said that Sen. Craig should not have resigned and that he should, in fact, fight the plea deal he reached in Minnesota concerning the alleged trolling for sex in a toilet.
I am publicly begging Sen. Craig. For the good of the Republican party, the very tattered reputation of the senate, the good of the nation and most importantly, the well being of your wife, Suzanne and children and grandchildren, just leave now, with what is left of your reputation intact and fight to clear your name as a private citizen.
Now, I have thought about the fact that Sen. Happy Feet is telling the truth that he decided to plead guilty to the lesser charge to do two things. Put the matter behind him and to not satisfy the prurient curiosity of the Idaho Statesman newspaper and the human excrement of a "blogger", Mike Rodgers. But, he should have fought right then and there and never given in, even to a lesser charge.
Because of that, Sen. Happy Feet needs to leave office to clear his name. That will make the fact that he resigned after a very good senate career under duress less of a bad decision.
But, I do not think that Sen. Happy Feet should listen to the erstwhile Sen. Specter and stay and fight. Maybe Sen. Specter has his heart in the right place, and for the record he was the only senator to somewhat show some support for Sen. Happy Feet. But, there are larger issues at stake.
Sen. Craig alluded to the fact that the United States is at war and that these are serious times.
That and trying to clear your name would take up way to much of your time as a senator means you must not take back your resignation statement of this past Saturday and go and clear yourself. Think of the bigger picture, not just yourself.
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