This is not a good time to be a Republican folks. More and more, I'm thinking I may have to switch back to being a Democrat! It's a scary thought!!!These good 'ole boys are taking my party in a whole different direction with an endless parade of mis-steps and foul-ups. Idaho Sen. Larry Craig is the latest at bat, announcing that he will in fact resign from the Senate Saturday after pressure from fellow Republicans to step down after an arrest in a men's room sex sting.
Craig decided to resign with plans to make the announcement in Boise on Saturday, his spokesman, Dan Whiting said, but he would not say whether the three-term senator planned to step down. Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, however, appeared to have settled on a successor: Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, according to several Republicans familiar with internal deliberations.
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, one of the Republican Party’s most influential figures on military issues and an increasingly critical voice on the course of the war in Iraq, also announced earlier today that he will not run for re-election next year.As reported by the New York Times, Warner said he had had “a magnificent and very rewarding career,” but that he had decided it was time to step aside rather than seek a sixth term. Virginia's former democratic Governor Mark Warner is likely to snap this seat up in 08, potentially leaving the conservative state with no GOP Senate presence in DC.
Tony Snow, whose face became familiar to millions of television viewers as well as the Washington press corps in his two years as chief White House spokesman, plans to leave his post on Sept. 14. The official reason is mo' money, mo' money, mo' money. I still can't help but think it has something to do with his courageous battle with cancer.“I sadly accepted his desire to leave the White House,” President Bush said in the briefing room where Mr. Snow has presided since the spring of 2006. “It’s been a joy to watch him spar with you.”