Senator Larry Craig just does not know when to give up the proverbial ghost.

Craig fell from grace and saw his political career crash and burn in the aftermath of an arrest in a Minneapolis Airport when an undercover police office accused Craig of soliciting sex. Craig eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and has denied he was seeking any sexual favors. Regardless, public disclosure of the guilty plea led to a firestorm of controversy and the embattled Senator has now decided to fight back by seeking to petition the court to have the guilty plea wiped away.

It is doubtful this will be a successful motion. Consider the following excerpt from the AP:

"He's already gotten lots of justice and fairness," said Mary Jane Morrison, a professor in criminal law at Hamline University. "A court will view this as taking not just a second bite at the apple, but a fourth and fifth bite. Because he had the right to refuse to plead in the first place, and put the state to its proof. He had the right to have an attorney help him figure out what was in his best interest."

Craig's actions will serve little purpose than bringing additional bad publicity not only to the GOP, but to the Harry Reid led Senate in general. The public is growing weary of a congress that they perceive as elitist and self serving as indicated by outrageously negative polls. The perpetual continuation of the Craig circus will certainly not help public perception at all.