WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men’s room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate.In a letter to the Republican senator, the ethics panel said Craig’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal consequences of his own actions.

Craig’s actions constitute “improper conduct which has reflected discreditably on the Senate,” the letter said.

A spokesman for Craig had no immediate comment.

The Charlotte Observer

What’s also more damaging to Craig is his refusal to resign his Senate seat after he pledged to do so. While I do not think that we will lose this seat in November, it certainly would have been better had Craig stepped aside back in September and allow Governor Otter to appoint a replacement so that we would have a seasoned incumbent going into the election. An open seat always carries a risk.

CHESTERTOWN, Md. (WBOC/AP)- Incumbent Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest was defeated Tuesday by state Senator Andy Harris, a year after Gilchrest was one of two Republicans in Congress to vote for a withdrawal timeline in Iraq.

Gilchrest voted to go to war in Iraq but later said he regretted the decision and that President Bush bungled the war.

Harris called Gilchrest too liberal.

Gilchrest called the campaign the most intense of his political career.

He had Republican challengers just a few months after being inaugurated into his ninth term.

After hearing that he had lost, Gilchrest said he needs time to digest the news and determine how he feels about it.

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I don’t know how Gilchrest feels but I feel pretty darn great!  Gilchrest was like the Lincoln Chafee of the House.  Harris was backed by the Club for Growth and will not disappoint.