Reports Say That Senator Larry Craig Will Resign Saturday

Major gay news blog TowleRoad and other major media sources like The New York Times are reporting that embattled U.S. Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) will resign at 10:30am on Saturday September 1 in Boise, Idaho. The capitulation by the Senator culminates a week of shame that led to unprecedented action by Republicans to repeatedly break the 11th Amendment "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican" and call for Craig's immediate resignation. Interestingly, the Republicans in the Senate have not made similar calls even though Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has admitted "sinning" after his name appeared on the "D.C. Madam's" client list.

Despite such unusual steps against a Senate colleague, Republicans took no punitive action against Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, after his acknowledgment this summer of involvement with an escort service that the police described as a prostitution front.

Party officials said Mr. Vitter’s case was different in that he faced no criminal charges and was not in the Senate but was serving in the House at the time. In the case of Mr. Craig, they said experience from a recent string of misconduct cases, including the House page scandal that hurt Republicans last year, had shown there was no time to waste if the political fallout was to be minimized.