Foley, for those who haven't heard, was forced to resign yesterday when news of his flirtatious and extremely sick IM messages to a 16 year-old male page were made public. Yesterday, as the news filtered out and Foley was forced to resign, Congress took up the issue or at least tried to brush it underneath the rug as fast as they possibly could, especially in light of the fact high-ranking Republican officials knew about Foley's problem but did nothing about it. As several explanations were read out loud in congress, most along the lines of "oops, my bad," Nancy Pelosi rose in a lovely canary yellow suit and asked for a motion for the House Ethics Committee to investigate.

Needless to say, it didn't go over very well. Lots of booing and all sorts of other raucous behavior occurred after her proposal was read, as we all know Republicans stand squarely against investigating anyone for their sexual peccadilloes. The always excellent Crooks and Liars has a video of the whole thing and it's pretty fun to watch. We love Nancy's bug-eyed look and mischievous grin as she rises up to announce her measure-- she just knows she's about to stir something up and she's part gleeful about the whole thing and part scared about what she's about to unleash.

Anways, as you could well imagine, Nancy's propopsal went nowhere, but in response, House Majority Leader John "Not Boner" Boehner introduced a measure calling for the House Ethics Committee to investigate whether they should investigate the whole affair.

Since we can't let this whole thing go without bringing up the major ironies in all this, it must be said that Foley is not only one of the leading congressional voices of all sorts of "won't somebody think of the children?" and came out foursquare against Bill Clinton during that whole episode.

Republican sex scandals can be fun!