Ooops

Now that scandal-tinged Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has reneged on a pledge to resign this fall, his fellow Republican senators act as though they hardly know him. They want voters to forget him, too.

But they privately acknowledge that an earlier strategy to drive Craig from office has backfired, sticking them with an open-ended ethics investigation likely to keep the issue before the public for months.

(Washington Post)

Seems some genius Republicans demanded an ethics inquiry as a way to encourage Craig to resign (a tactic one of Craig's lawyers refers to as "ethical waterboarding," go figure that one out) but Craig, an R in his own right, called their bluff. So now there's a lot of blubbering about "closed sessions," which may mean secret investigations or may, possibly, mean something even more amusing, who knows.

But not to worry. The Dems aren't much interested in this whole ethics thing either because they don't want to offend anyone, ever - or at least until after the next election - and they don't want to get into some kind of ethics war because the next thing you know everybody might have to start being ethical and that would really ruin the fun.

So, in the words of a "congressional scholar," don't expect much to happen here.