Michael Grimm has decided to resign from Congress days after pleading guilty: sources

[herding cats]

33. I think he was shown the door.

Rumor is there was a oompa loompa orange foot sticking out of a hole in the rear of his trousers when he left the meeting. Better to get rid of him now than have him be a marketable Republican scandal in 2016, they're already looking at a big fight for the Senate then and there's the presidential race to consider. Give him the boot now and the voters will have plenty of time to be distracted by shiny objects between now and 2016.

What I don't get is why he was allowed to run in the first place, rather than step down when they had time to fill his slot. They (R's) had to have been able to find some other criminal element willing to work for them who wasn't already under indictment. Maybe even someone they could have cleaned up enough to last another couple of terms before their crimes were exposed. At least then they could have pretended they had some ethics, as it is now they just look they were scared of him before and finally took the easy way out when he admitted his guilt. Which, now that I think of it, may be all there is to there waiting until now to tell him he's too radioactive to continue to participate in the Republican games.