Hurray, Responsibility! or: I Wish I Had Been Wrong On This One

Back on Oct. 2, I surmised of the Mark Foley scandal:
"There will be an "investigation" on the taxpayer dime that will render no results of consequence, we'll all forget in 2-3 weeks anyway, and this unfortunate episode will be under rug swept."

Well, here we are some 2 months later, this event a distant memory (if a memory at all), and today the Investigative Subcommittee report on this matter was released sans fanfare.

What I read of the report (which was primarily the summation/conclusion/last 20 pages (no pun intended)), said: 1) the committee had no jurisdiction to fully investigate the actions of Foley as he had resigned from the House 2) though several members of the House did not act responsibly in this matter, they failed to suitably transgress House Rule 23 ("a member...of the House, shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House") or Clause 9 of the Code of Ethics for Government Service ("any person in government service...should expose corruption wherever discovered") so as to require further inquiry and pursuance of this matter, stating "the Subcommittee is mindful of the ease with which decisions and conduct can be questioned in hindsight with the benefit of later discovered facts."
This little disclaimer, gives them a pass to go on for several pages (non sequitur not intended) browbeating the Republican House members for doing next to nothing, while at the same time letting them off the hook.

In the words of a classic Red Stripe commerical: Hurray, responsibility!