Sarah Palin’s decision to quit her job as governor was so long planned that her father-in-law was shocked to hear the news — which he got as an email news alert on his cell phone.
The FBI takes the unusual step of publicly declaring that Sarah Palin is not under investigation. That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) launches his “I’m Coming After You, Arlen” tour of Pennsylvania.
At 10:30 this morning at the Hart Senate Office Building, a maintenance crew assigned by the Architect of the Capitol will install the official nameplate outside of Sen. Franken’s new office.
All you TPMers up there, head over with your digital cameras!
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) denounces round the clock coverage of “pervert” “low-life” “pedophile” Michael Jackson.
After an unexpected and clearly hastily organized resignation announcement Friday, the political question on everyone’s mind these days is what is going on in the world of Sarah Palin? We search for answers in today’s Sunday Show Roundup …
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Let me start by saying I don’t think this is likely. But given our experience with Larry Craig, I do think it’s worth considering. Remember, former Sen. Larry Craig came out and announced he was resigning his office. But folks who listened closely noticed that he only announced his ‘intent to resign‘. And later he decided that his ‘intent’ had changed and he wouldn’t resign after all. He ended up serving right through the last day of his term in January 2009.
Now, Palin’s situation is different in as much as Craig was under great pressure to resign and the ‘intend to’ workaround ended up just buying him time. Palin did this totally out of the blue. But given the thundering derision that has greeted her decision and exposure as a quitter of gargantuan proportions, is it possible she’ll reconsider? After all, if she’s resigning, why doesn’t she just resign? Why wait until the end of July?
Again, I don’t think it’s likely. And I can’t fathom a scenario in which it was planned all along. But remember we’re dealing with a deeply erratic and probably mentally unstable person who does lots of completely whacked things at the drop of a hat. So it’s hard to figure that three weeks isn’t plenty of time for her to reconsider. It might even be enough time for her to un-resign and decide to re-resign all over again in time for the deadline.