..........Senator Larry takes a wider stance on his decision to resign!

Senator Larry Craig, who was not gay and was never gay, but was resigning even though he wasn't gay, and then was not resigning because he was still not gay, is resigning again. But he is still definitely not gay. Craig leaves the back door open to remain in the Senate. Headline earlier this week: Senator Craig has reconsiderd his decison to resign, and has hired Vick's lawyer to defend him. Just when Republicans thought things could not get much worse, Idaho's Sen. Larry Craig leaked {heh!} word Tuesday night that he is reconsidering his premature plan to withdraw from the Senate in the wake of his pleading guilty to soliciting gay sex. Top Republican strategists were biting their pillows over the senator's decision, says CNN: Craig's backtracking upset the Republican leaders, an aide said, because they thought Craig's intended resignation put the controversy behind them. A senior GOP Senate strategist said Republican leaders want him gone now and will press for him to keep his promise to resign. The strategist warned Craig is "losing any goodwill built up among his colleagues," the same colleagues that unceremoniously dumped him from his committees and practically kicked him out onto the pavement. "It simply defies reality," said a Senate GOP aide. "You can't make this up even if you are heavily medicated. The American people heard from Larry Craig that he would resign and using the word 'intent' as a back door doesn't work with them. Nice choice of words.

In another turn of events, this guy was on Larry King last night defending Senator Larry. Maybe he could learn something about political survival from President Clinton. If only Senator Craig was not the only one in his party to "turn the other cheek".