They made me do it.

When I was a child a favorite phrase of my mum’s was “If your friends asked you to jump of a cliff, would you do it?” Of course, at the age of nine, with the all the forward-thinking talent of a looking down the barrel of a shotgun to see if there is a cartridge in the chamber, I would have jumped of anything if I thought that it might get a laugh.

I’m really amazed that the American justice system has the capability to accept renunciation of guilty pleas from anyone. I thought, in my niavety, that when you entered a guilty plea it meant that hmmm… you did it.

Apparently not true if you are a conservative senator (Sen Craig).

CBS News: Senator Craig to seek reversal of guilty plea

It’s sad. I hope the judge treats this clown the same way that I got treated when I used the “they made me do it” defence. I hope that he gets sent to bed with a spanked behind. On second thoughts – maybe that’s why he’s trying it.

One thing that America has is a surfeit of lawyers and politicians and perhaps it is time for one of them to gracefully retreat into the background. He has no integrity either way just now.