Americans  are ready to forgive youthful indescretions or co-workers and even  boses acting out with some bizarre antics. But that tolerance doesn't  extend it would appear to members of Congress who move to far out of the  accepted norm. This has been especially true of the current  congressional delegation.

Here are those who after being caught deviating from the expected have resigned the office:

• Representative  Chris Lee, R-N.Y., resigned in the early weeks of this Congress in  February 2011, after a shirtless picture he posted of himself on  Craigslist and a number of flirtatious e-mails he exchanged with a woman  who was not his wife were published by Gawker.

• Senator  John Ensign, R-Nev., resigned in April 2011, amid an ethics probe into  an extramarital affair he conducted with a woman who was a family friend  and whose husband was an Ensign staffer.

• Representative  Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., resigned in June 2011, following a media  firestorm over explicit tweets of himself he had sent to women online.  Weiner is married.

• Representative David Wu, D-Ore., resigned in August 2011, following  allegations of sexually assaulting a campaign donor's teenage daughter  and a string of media reports chronicling odd behavior that included a  photograph of him wearing a tiger suit that went viral online.

• Representative  Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., resigned last week shortly after a lowbrow  television pilot script he had authored was leaked to the media by a  former aide. McCotter had already failed to qualify for the ballot in  November, and his campaign operation is under investigation by the state  attorney general for how they handled his petition filing.

http://usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-07-14/antics-prompt-resignations-from-congress/56205160/1

Of  course there are others who have suffered ethical lapses, but continue  to serve. And in the case of Charile Rangel of New York, the voters  aren't ready to kick him out yet.

From  the Cornfield, in this day of instant electronic news, rumors and  innuendos, it behooves our elected officials to be mindful of each and  every deed or action. You never know is watching with a cell phone ready  to capture the least picadillo.