"The speed of Lee's resignation indicated a culture of zero tolerance by House Republicans for potentially controversial behavior so soon after winning control of the chamber for the first time since 2007."
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/09/house.lee.resigns/
*Republicans with zero tolerance for their own sexuality? There won't be any of them left.
*So: someone leaked that to Gawker. They just eliminated an elected American official at trivial cost and effort. Why do backers still spend millions to elect people when asymmetric attacks of this kind are so effective?
