When you think about it--this isn't much different than last year when Manuel Miranda, a GOP aide found the dem talking points about how they were going to obstruct Bush's nominees and even avert a pro-GOP ruling in an affirmative action case....
What happened then, Miranda got fired for finding the notes and giving them to the GOP---and the dems got NADA, ZILCH, NOTHING, for writing them and using unethical obstuctionist tactics to stall judicial nominees from getting a floor vote.
Even Orrin Hatch and Lindsay Graham went against their own aide, Miranda and threw him under the bus---and NEVER confronted the dems about what the memos said!!!
'finding'?! If I go digging through your computer files that's not simply 'finding' something, that's stinks of Watergate, and the Republicans knew they couldn't raise a stink about what had been 'found', given the circumstances.
What's bad about this is it confirms the public perception that Congress's involvement in the Schiavo case was purely political. I don't see an ethical problem here. I do see a stupidity problem. It helps the Democrats frame the GOP as pandering to the Religious Right.