so, all this news, all happening at once today. it does raise some interesting, i think, answerable questions. when was the last time a senator asked for an ethics investigation of himself? has that ever happened before? does it matter if this is going to be handled by the ethics committee investigating franken, does it matter in terms of the jurisdiction here that the behavior involved happened before al franken became a senator? i remember when david vitter was the subject of a sex-realitied scandal and the ethics committee said they couldn t look into it because it was from when he was only in the house, and wasn t in the senate. will that factor in here given that franken wasn t a senator yet? and what about menendez? even if bob menendez wins in court, if he s not retried, or if he gets retried and he s acquitted. could he still face getting booted out of the senate now? now that they ve restarted their ethics inquiry into him? and then, of course, there s candidate roy moore. mit