10.06.2006

So What Happened to the 800 lb Gorilla in the Page's Room on Capitol Hill

The House has announced it will conduct an ethics probe. OK.

But there are a couple of hinky things here:

  1. The House will investigate "the matter" (exactly what remains to be seen, especially given #2;
  2. The investigation will NOT include a probe into Mark Foley's behavior.
  3. Democrats, of course, are not invited to sit in. In fact, since the GOP took control, Democrats could have stayed at home for all the Republicans let them do.
See a problem there?