So when will the Ensign hearings or trial begin?

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Why is this taking so long?

Or will RETHUGS take him out first

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/nov/10/gop-may-be-setting-its-sights-ensign/
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GOP may be setting its sights on Ensign
I have to believe Ensign will soon become a target of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Why? Because the GOP sees a path to taking the Senate in 2012 — two-thirds of the contested seats are held by Democrats — and they don’t want to have to worry about defending their own. Ensign has a disapproval rating approaching Harry Reid-like elevation and he will have neither the benefit of a Reid-like turnout machine or campaign team. Those who know him or have been with him before want nothing to do with him now. Even in Nevada, where the dead are resurrected and no depredation seems unforgivable, Ensign has no path to victory.

And, yet, Ensign has seemed nothing short of delusional in recent months, telling folks he is getting ready to ramp up his re-election bid even as his personal campaign account and his leadership PAC are depleted. He has not been able to raise money since June 16, 2009, when he made the announcement of an affair that would later lead to the revelation that he had slept with his wife’s best friend who was also his best friend’s wife — I still cringe when I write that. What followed was a series of revelations, hastened by the volubility of the cuckolded husband, that has resulted in two federal probes over allegations of parental payoffs, senatorial juice and pay-for-play.

If Ensign does follow through and run, all things being equal, he will be flattened by GOP Rep. Dean Heller. Heller has been skillful in his career at picking — and not picking — spots. He eschewed a run against The Anointed One, Kenny Guinn, in the 1998 gubernatorial race. But when Rep. Jim Gibbons decided to run for governor four years ago, Heller leapt at the opportunity to run for his seat and would have won in a walk if not for a Club for Growth-energized former assemblywoman named Sharron Angle, who almost beat him. After Ensign cast a pall over the GOP a year and a half ago, Heller passed up a run against Reid, believing the junior senator’s days were numbered and that running against him was much preferable to the majority leader’s buzz saw.