Hey Senator Santorum: What goes around comes around.

Remember when Senator “Righteous Ricky” Santorum blamed the entire city of Boston for the Catholic priest pedophile scandal by saying:

"When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political, and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm."

Well as you can imagine that did not sit well with the good people of Boston. And at least one Bostonian is snickering just a tad right now:

... I find it surprising -- no, make that shocking -- that the center of the storm has shifted from Boston to, of all places, Capitol Hill, and not just any part of Capitol Hill but specifically the offices of the Republican congressional leadership.

The scandal in Washington so mirrors what's happened in Boston and other Catholic dioceses the nation over to the point of being surreal. A rank-and-file member of an organization does wrong by a minor. The hierarchy, in turn, does nothing. Now, rather than a priest, it's a 52-year-old Republican congressman -- or make that a former congressman, given Mark Foley's resignation on Friday. Foley, by the way, has pulled the Patrick Kennedy defense, checking himself into rehab, as if everyone is supposed to applaud the courage of self-awareness.

And rather than a bunch of archbishops and cardinals, it's the House leadership, which showed a breathtaking lack of curiosity after they learned of Foley's e-mails to a 16-year-old page. They contend to have never learned of Foley's exchange with a page in which he wrote: ``Well, strip down and get relaxed."

The writer goes on to say:

His is probably the best lesson in what goes around, comes around. Santorum seemed to be all but gloating when he blamed Democrats, liberal academics, and everything Boston for pedophilic priests. Yesterday, White House spokesman Tony Snow was urging all parties to allow investigations to proceed, rather than, in his words, to say, ``OK, how can I get political advantage out of this?"

Even in defeat, Rick Santorum and others like him will never come to understand one true thing: The world of the depraved is a nonpartisan, non-ideological world indeed.