A judge shot down Idaho's Republican Senator Larry Craig's request to withdraw his guilty plea for soliciting gay sex in a men's room at Minneapolis airport.

"Because the defendant's plea was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and because the conviction is supported by the evidence ... the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea is denied," Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter wrote.

But, in shocking move, the closeted Senator who always votes against anything that would create equal (or any) rights for homosexuals, has decided to stay in the Senate until the end of his term in 2008.

In related news, Minneapolis has previously been selected by the Republican National Committee to host the 2008 Republican Presidential Convention. I have a feeling that that bathroom is going to get a whole of television airtime, especially from The Daily Show........