Well DUH!!

Gee pal, YA THINK?? These guys and gals stick together like the little balls of poop that stick to your ass hairs and just won't fall properly into the depths of the toilet bowl. To get rid of them ya just HAFTA wipe.
Politicians are about the lowest form of civilized life that I can think of. This is because their jobs basically revolve around "spin"- putting their own version of the truth out there for everyone to see. This means that they put down anything their opponents come up with - even if it's a good thing. This means that they build up anything their side comes up with- even if it ain't such a good thing. This means they HIDE bad things about their side and blow things out of proportion for the other side. It's politics. Nuff said...
My problem with this- meaning THIS case only, not this whole situation of partisan politics- is that it SHOULD be a legal issue only. The case where the guy had a relationship with an underage intern should have seen the guy in jail or UNDER one. The case where the guy text messaged the underage intern should be fully under investigation. If some wrong-doing was found to have happened, he, too, should be put UNDER a jail.
Of COURSE the politicians are gonna have their war of words and this should determine whether the guy gets elected again or not- basically whether he loses his job. However, the LEGAL action is what I wanna know about. Politicians will put all kinds of spin on the situation and I don't care about that. I wanna know the FACTS. Facts will come from the legal investigation- or should.
Your point was that the whole situation sucks and this is true. Any person who closes a blind eye to a potentially illegal situation just because the perp is a friend should be smacked around. Especially if this same person goes OFF against another perp in the same situation just because they are on another team. And that is what we have here- teams. Teams who are playing a game of politics to get their buddy a job in the next election. To do this they hafta get a rival fired. It's a game of who gets elected and who gets ousted...who gets a job and who loses their job. These teams play this politics game against each other but the loser ends up being the American people and that really sucks.