An insider much too close to the situation to be talking tells Big Head DC that Sen. Larry Craig’s staffers have practically begged him to resign now that a Minnesota judge has decided NOT to overturn his guilty bathroom sex plea. Most who have not abandoned him yet to work for fellow Republican Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo desperately want to work for another Congress member — at this point, even a Democratic Congress member would do. The sentiment we’re hearing: “Put us out of our misery, so at least we can salvage our resumes.”

“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 in denying Craig’s plea earlier today.