so you wrote about those two scandals today in a blog post at the washington monthly. you asked the question and now i ll make you answer it. why is it getting so much more attention? it s puzzling, isn t it? when you think about it, ensign seems to have all the elements that one would look for in a freeding frenzy. we have a family of values conservative caught up in a sex scandal and corruption and lobbyists and hush money. in those circumstances, giving it s a sitting senator, it s tempting to think the media would be all over this. you would have reporters staked out in front of his house, you would have editorials about him resigning. and yet, none of that s actually happening. most of the attention is focused on rangel, and before this, former congressman massa. and so it does raise the question, of course, why is that? you know, one of the things i see a lot from the left is called this rule called iok, ror. which stands for, it s okay if