Yesterday, House MInority Leader John Boehner demonstrated the new-found outrage of his caucus on the issue of ethics.  Boehner really wants an ethics investigation of Rep. Jefferson.  Now, keep in mind, there were no ethics investigations of former GOP Representatives Randy "Duke" Cunningham and Bob Ney.  But Boehner wants more -- now:

The Republican resolution called for the ethics committee to investigate Jefferson, who was indicted Monday on 16 counts of bribery and corruption. The resolution, which specifically called on the committee to look into whether Jefferson should be expelled, passed 373-26. Also, 13 members, including members of the ethics committee, voted “present.”

Republicans stressed that Democrats had not renewed the ethics subcommittee investigating Jefferson since taking power five months ago. They noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) prevented the subcommittee from being named because she did not select potential members for investigative subcommittees until Tuesday – after Jefferson was indicted.

“It’s somewhat of a sad state of affairs that this committee wasn’t formed until today and it took this indictment to get this subcommittee named,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

It's somewhat of a sad state of affairs that the Ethics Committee hasn't done anything for years.  Therein lies the bigger problem.  And, even now, it takes an indictment for the Ethics Committee to launch an investigation.