What are the chances?

Really? One could only hope.

I thought they kicked Larry Craig out of Congress?

Son of God: Zarkin Frood: I thought they kicked Larry Craig out of Congress?

They have not.

Those bastards.

He's resigning to spend more time with his lawyers

resigning retiring

flaEsq: He's resigning to spend more time with his lawyers The Animals

I am... SO... sorry... I just couldn't resist.

Boritom: flaEsq: He's resigning to spend more time with his lawyers The Animals

I am... SO... sorry... I just couldn't resist.

There is...a stall...in the airport...


/sorry

Zarkin Frood: I thought they kicked Larry Craig out of Congress?

For a misdemeanor? You have to be kidding.

I, for one, hope Larry Craig stays.

/For the jokes

Son of God: If this was about a Democrat, his party probably wouldn't be mentioned until the end of the last paragraph. But noooooooooo, it's a Republican, so the liberal drive-by media needs to slander an honorable man and make sure you know he's a Republican in the first sentence. Typical.

I give it a 4.1.

Damn. I was looking forward to his ass getting handed to him in November.

The real reason why this criminal is stepping down is that he has lost his ability to raise money, directly due to his lack of honesty. It has been reported that he is currently skimming money off of his campaign donations into his personal accounts, so people have stopped giving him money. Link

Just another example of how even when the system is broken (our department of justice being politicized) that Americans will find a way to take out the garbage.

It's about damn time. Make way for Congressman Charlie Brown, representing California's fightin' 4th!

/Doolittle is a douche.

My apologies for adding a link where one has to register to read. The article:

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Doolittle's cachet with big Washington, D.C., campaign financiers seems to have plummeted in the aftermath of the FBI's April 13 raid on his Oakton, Va., house, and the eight-term Roseville Republican heads toward the 2008 election season with his campaign still in debt and receipts on the decline.

Meanwhile, the campaign of Democrat Charlie Brown, who came within 3 points of defeating Doolittle in November, is gaining steam. Brown's campaign raised almost twice as much as Doolittle's in the last three months and ended the six-month mark with a net cash balance of $251,000. Doolittle posted $32,250 in debts.

Doolittle's biggest expense during the three-month period was $50,000 in fundraising payments to Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions, a company owned by his wife and operated out of the couple's house. It was the company's records that the FBI was after in the April raid, conducted as part of the Justice Department's ongoing investigation into the Doolittles' relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Even with the hefty campaign payments to Julie Doolittle's company, Sierra Dominion still was owed more than $76,000 in commissions from the 2006 race.

The Doolittle campaign's second largest expense was $30,000 to defense attorney David Barger's law office, bringing the campaign's attorney's fees for defending the congressman in the last year to more than $130,000.

It is possible Doolittle's legal expenses were higher. Late last month, he formed a legal defense fund to raise money separately for those expenses, and costs for the two law firms representing him no longer will be reported as campaign expenses. The fund also has been authorized by the House ethics committee to pay the legal expenses of his wife.

In press conferences with reporters over the last month or so, Doolittle had alluded to the fact that he and his wife's connection to the Abramoff scandal was drying up money in Washington, but the filing of the midyear report with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday night was the first indication of how deep the loss has been.

The second quarter of an off-year in the two-year congressional campaign cycle generally shows increasing income, as Brown's did -- jumping from about $89,000 in the first three months to $193,000 in April, May and June.

But for Doolittle, the trend was the other direction. His campaign took in $128,000 in the first quarter and barely topped $100,000 in the second.

The Doolittle campaign, in a press release sent late Friday, highlighted the congressman's annual Dixieland Jazz Jubilee Dinner in May in his congressional district.

"Local Republicans are committed to my re-election in 2008," Doolittle said. "Attendance this year exceeded 2005 and was probably the largest in the 26 years we have held the event."

But record attendance did not translate into record giving, as 2007 receipts for the period were down $51,000 from the same period two years ago -- the equivalent period in the election cycle.

Doolittle's receipts from the big-bucks political action committees, most of which are in Washington, fell from $27,925 in the first quarter to $14,850 in the second -- $4,000 less than Brown took in.

Doolittle's campaign spokesman, Gordon Hinkle, referred calls Sunday night to political consultant Richard Temple, whose office was closed. Doolittle chief of staff Ron Rogers did not return a call.

Doctor Funkenstein: Boritom: flaEsq: He's resigning to spend more time with his lawyers The Animals sail away on a wave of mutilation.

That's nearly a tenth of the Republican delegation to Congress stepping down this election cycle.

This is huge.

captainktainer: That's nearly a tenth of the Republican delegation to Congress stepping down this election cycle.

This is huge.

Cunningham and Abramoff must have sung like f*cking sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera.

I wonder if this is going to bore highschool kids in history class to tears in 80 years. Teapot Dome put my ass right to sleep.

Ace Frehley's Ghost: Zarkin Frood: I thought they kicked Larry Craig out of Congress?

For a misdemeanor? You have to be kidding.

Oh yeah, that's right...

"36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currently are defendants in lawsuits. and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
Can you guess which organization this is?


It's the 535 members of the United States Congress."