things just keep gettin' betterer and betterer....

How does this work? Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho is leaving the Senate and presumably public life this weekend in circumstances that could be referred to as questionable. Conveniently, in the same time frame, former Senator Fred Thompson is said to be declaring his candidacy for the GOP nomination for President.

Coincidence? You decide.

Is it just me or does Fred look a lot like Larry with contacts and after a couple of (mellowing) weeks at a spa?

UPDATE 1:

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Sen Arlen Specter has said that Senator Craig should withdraw his guilty plea and his notification of intention to resign from the Senate, saying that he wouldn't be convicted of anything and without a conviction, all of this goes away.

What kind of a pinko liberal is this Specter guy? I mean, the Senator from Idaho was pinched in the same way that anyone else in the circumstances would be, and was given the same opportunities to avail himself of the legal system, and chose to plead guilty. If this was an inner city black youth who had been accused of soliciting a white police officer (male or female), and copped a plea to a lesser charge, you know, to get it all behind him, would the system be bending over backwards to assist him in the name of justice?

I don't know Larry Craig, or Arlen Specter, and neither has been in my bathroom, but this is an example of what I wrote briefly about in my last rather ineloquent post. There are rules that apply to them, and then there are rules that apply to the rest of us. The fact the Craig's and Specter's party may suffer at the polls because of this is no reason to do anything differently.