To the Republican party's dismay Larry Craig's "wide stance" proves impossible to budge.

Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though they hardly know him. They want voters to forget him, too.

But they privately acknowledge that an earlier strategy to drive Craig from office has backfired, sticking them with an open-ended ethics investigation likely to keep the issue before the public for months.

I don't often find anything to thank the Republican party for, but I have to offer them my heart felt thanks for helping to keep the Larry Craig controversy alive.

Thanks fellas.