Holding our children to higher standard than Larry Craig

Senator Larry Craig will not resign even though the judge rejected his motion to overturn his guilty plea.  Yesterday on MSNBC's Hardball, Craig's lawyer warned Barbara Boxer's Senate Ethics Committee to stay away and not investigate him.  Interesting.

Employers can fire employees for their conduct outside the workplace.  Teenagers can be put on academic probation for yelling profanity while sitting in the bleachers during a high school basketball game.  Even elementary school students have been suspended for inappropriate content on their MySpace pages.  Bottom line: your conduct, even if it is done outside the institution you represent, does not make you immune from internal punishment.

And Larry Craig's lawyers think it is inappropriate for the Senate Ethics Committee to conduct an investigation?  Maybe Craig should start showing some respect for the long-standing institution called the United States Senate, which no lawmaker is ever above.