That is, John Doolittle (CA-4) and Richard Pombo (CA-11), of course: Friends of Jack.

Excellent idea, you say. Surely, in her position as head Dem honcho in the House, she would have had her people get the Ethics Committee on the case(s) in short order.

It wasn't perhaps the best of starts to admit, as she did back then,

I am not familiar with the facts of the case, I really am not. I only know what I have read in the paper.

But, that's what staffers are for, isn't it?

I pulled up in a piece here a few days ago an article by Ari Berman which gave little cause to hope.

Now I find a Hill piece from January 25 which purports to explain the Dem position further.

The reasons giving for inaction in Dems filing ethics complaints (against P & D or anyone else) are that

The Justice Department is moving, and there's no reason to interfere and give the Republicans a tool to say the investigation is being politicized...

and

because the panel remains shuttered after a months-long partisan disagreement over how to staff the committee and that the committee would not pursue an investigation in tandem with the Justice Department.

It seems that there is also an outstanding complaint against the Dem Jim McDermott (WA-7); and there may be grist for the GOP mill in the conduct of other Dem members (Jefferson of LA-2, for instance).

Pelosi's is clearly the percentage play here. Nine months before mid-terms is not the time to be offering hostages to fortune. (There is a sixty day safe haven period before a member's primary and general elections in which complaints may not be filed (Rule 15(h)) - which may making timing ticklish.)

Still, just so we're on the same page here - it's not happening.