Larry Craig quit this weekend while I was on the beach on the Jersey shore. That’s not fair. But this story about the resignation gives us something to ponder. First, we remember Craig’s denial.

“I am not gay. I never have been gay,” Craig said defiantly after a news conference Tuesday. He said he had kept the incident from aides, friends and family and pleaded guilty “in hopes of making it go away.”

So Craig wants everyone to believe his denial, and also believe the police in Minneapolis had nothing on him, that they were simply entrapping him. Who does he call as counsel? Why, Larry Craig calls a man who has very recently advised a man who denied, denied, denied, even to his employer. Alas, the last famous man Billy Martin advised ended up making a deal with the Feds that should give him some jail time.

Craig announced later Saturday that he has retained Billy Martin, a Washington lawyer who represented Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick in his dogfighting case, to pursue his legal options. Washington lawyer Stan Brand will represent Craig before the Senate ethics committee, said spokesman Dan Whiting.

Certainly there were those who cried for Mr. Craig’s resignation because of his hypocrisy, or merely because he’d pled guilty of a crime. Clearly, given that he’s hired the same man who helped steer the Michael Vick train wreck, we should have been calling for his resignation based on his sense of judgement, or lack thereof.