The real problem he faces is that 2006 is an election year, and he will be a lame-duck majority leader. His capacity to put together deals in the Senate will be limited by the fact that he has nothing to bargain with.
Concerns about ethics tend to be episodic, and those episodes are stimulated when there are horror strikes. And, of course, Tennessee Waltz was a real horror story.
Suppose you're on some committee - say the Transportation Committee, and a major transportation reauthorization bill is in the works. If you're managing the bill, you're going to make sure that the speaker's, majority leader's and whip's districts are treated pretty well.
My sense is that he's said what he's going to say about his family and feels that there's no need to bring further attention to them.
They all want to differentiate themselves in positive ways.
The Republican leadership in the House is more ideologically homogenous than parties have been in a century. You don't find great variation in policy positions.
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