Of course he would choose to step down on a dead news day. Unfortunately for Craig, anytime he would make the announcement will awaken the MSM. (AP):Craig will announce at a news conference in Boise Saturday morning that he will resign effective Sept. 30, GOP officials in Idaho and Washington told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.
...Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter appeared Friday to have already settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations.
...Craig has been out of public view since Tuesday, when he declared defiantly at a Boise news conference: "I am not gay. I never have been gay." But Republican sources in Idaho said he spent Friday making calls to top party officials, including the governor, gauging their support.
There has been virtually none publicly.
Asked Friday at the White House if the senator should resign, President Bush said nothing and walked off stage. How does it feel, Larry -- all your conservative "values" friends have deserted you. The same people who you bonded with to demonize the lives of openly gay taxpaying citizens calling for your head.
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So, will he actually step down, or simply say he won't run for re-election?
[UPDATE: "Radical" Russ here. So nice of the Senator from my birth state to delay his inevitable retirement press conference to coincide with my live talk radio show. I'll be breaking the news with a live feed from the press conference at 620KPOJ.com. Yes, he'll step down. In Idaho, macho Western pride is very much in effect. The whole state is Don't Ask Don't Tell.
Oh, how the talk radio audio content gods have smiled upon your humble guest barista! I had a field day with this story when I hosted The Bill Press Show on Wednesday. And that Pam Spaulding, she's a whole lot of fun to interview. Who'da thunk a gal who types * in her profanities would invoke the FCC 8-second delay? Dang it, I was certain that I'd be the one to get dumped, but in five months on the air, I've managed to keep it squeaky clean.
Great timing. The shelf life on this story expires soon as he retires, and for an Idaho recovering-Republican who occasionally posts on a LGBT blog and hosts a progressive talk radio show, this is like tee-ball. Tea room tee-ball. Tee hee!
Speaking of which - I always kinda knew there was anonymous gay bathroom sex. There are always the legends about certain truck stops on the road that we long haired musician types were told to avoid. But I'm more fascinated by what seems to be an elaborate ritual and code designed to slyly allow a man who wants to have cheap, quick, dirty, anonymous rocks-off sex to get it from a willing partner who expects no relationship, intimacy, or even a conversation.
Ah, hell, who am I kidding? Straights have the same thing. It just costs more.
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