GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra called on the Senator to resign saying Craig “represents the Republican party,” and called for his resignation “as his conduct throughout this matter has been inappropriate for a U.S. senator.”

Meanwhile Arizona Sen. and 2008 candidate McCain and Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota who is also up for re-election in 2008 have also called on Craig to resign after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from an undercover cop in a Minneapolis airport.

In perhaps what will become a sign of things to come Craig has stepped down from his high-ranking position as top Republican on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee and two other subcommittees. In a statement from the Senate GOP “This is not a decision we take lightly but we believe this is in the best interest of the Senate until this situation is resolved by the Ethics Committee.”

Meanwhile YouTube & Cable television are digging up some video that won’t be very helpful for the Senator.

From the Associated Press:

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

My take? I have to say if Edwards thinks Americans are ready and willing to give up their SUV’s he probably doesn’t know America. I live in a suburb of a pretty small city and the amount of hummers I see driving around is insane. In my daily commute I see at least four hummers of all shapes and colors each and every day. If I go to a restaurant that doubles. I see regular old gas guzzling SUV’s non-stop and when I talk to SUV owners they wouldn’t trade them for anything short of another gas guzzling supped up sports car.

Ultimately I think any suggestion of people “sacrificing” their cars is a losing issue for Democrats. The much better strategy is the one adopted by Gov. Schwarzenegger which put simply is ‘instead of giving up our lifestyle, lets create the technology to make these cars fuel efficient and run on environmentally friendly technology and hold automakers to a higher standard’.

From the Associated Press top G.O.P leaders are calling for an ethics committee review into Idaho Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea into a lewd conduct sting operation in an airport mens bathroom. Craig tonights insists he is ‘not gay’ but the 24/7 news networks are already digging into his past, finding repeated allegations and similar statements issued by Craig in the past to deny them. That included a 1982 page scandal, similar to Mark Foley, in which Craig defended himself. See the clip below.

Sorry I couldn’t find a less partisan version of the clip.

Craig was walking into re-election in 2008 with a large campaign War chest in a heavily Republican seat but rumors have been around for awhile that he might not run. The prospects are not looking good for a re-election bid.

“Once again, we’ve found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence. Very disappointing. He’s no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine… I’m sorry to see that he has fallen short.”

Romney said that to CNBC’s Kudlow & Company discussing the recent guilty plea by Senator Craig to lewd conduct with a man in a Minnesota airport bathroom. Craig was Romney’s Idaho state chairman but yesterday video of the Senator giving a message of support was taken down from the Romney campaign Web site. Craig also officially resigned from his duties for the Romney team.

“I think it reminds us of Mark Foley and Bill Clinton. I think it reminds us of the fact that people who are elected to public office continue to disappoint, and they somehow think that if they vote the right way on issues of significance or they can speak a good game, that we’ll just forgive and forget. And the truth of the matter is, the most important thing we expect from elected–an elected official is a level of dignity and character that we can point to for our kids and our grandkids, and say, `Hey, someday I hope you grow up and you’re someone like that person.’ And we’ve seen disappointment in the White House, we’ve seen it in the Senate, we’ve seen it in Congress. And frankly, it’s disgusting.”

This isn’t the first set of problems for the Romney campaign or for the presidential campaigns in general. Earlier in the year Romney’s ’security guru’ and driver Jay Garrity stepped down for allegedly impersonating an officer. Before that Rudy Giuliani’s South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel was indicted on cocaine charges.

The United Transportation Union has endorsed democratic Senator Hillary Clinton for the 2008 presidential election.

“It is a high honor and a distinct privilege to be the first labor union in making this endorsement,” said UTU International President Paul Thompson. “The UTU has a long history of picking winners early. Hillary will be a president that America’s working families can count on. Time and again, as a United States senator, she has stood with us.

“The UTU intends to devote our considerable resources to encouraging our 125,000 active and retired members, their families, friends and neighbors to register to vote and cast ballots on Election Day 2008 for Hillary.