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WaPo, in its wisdom, informed us yesterday:

(Sen. Larry) Craig is expected to resign from the Senate this week unless he can overturn his plea to disorderly conduct charges stemming from his June 11 arrest in a sting in a restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

You have to be extremely credulous to say that. Or, actually, it’s enough to have a very low opinion of your readers.

Larry Craig has said repeatedly that he will resign from the Senate at the end of this week if he is unable to withdraw his guilty plea. Or maybe he will resign. Or maybe he will just work on resigning.

By now he has managed to pepper his purported plans with so many ifs and buts (no pun intended, of course) that no one who credits his readers with a soupcon of intelligence would write that Craig is actually expected to resign.

So why is WaPo’s Paul Kane engaging in this act of misdirection?

Why does WaPo think it’s a good idea to let him feed such oxcrap to their readers?

*** Update, 3:10 pm ***

Here’s Larry Craig, explaining to you himself where you should and shouldn’t get your news from:

Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig declined to say Tuesday whether he would resign his seat as planned if his guilty plea stemming from a Minneapolis bathroom sex sting is not overturned this week.

“We are waiting for the legal determinations and I have nothing more to say,” Craig told reporters Tuesday.

The senator would not comment on what he would do if the court case were not decided by Sunday, the original date of his planned resignation from the Senate.