Wasting Time With Alex
Friday, June 11, 2010
This most ethical Congress is hard at work…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. All right, that was bad considering these people are all “Class AAA” liars with decades of experience lying to everyone, including themselves, but I just wanted to give the Ol’ Bard some play time when addressing the demcorats latest gaffes. Seems like these scumbags that promised to be more ethical than the “evil and vile rethuglican machine and the anti-Christ BushChimpyMcHilter” – paraphrasing their words, not mine – are about to fix the ethics committee that have gotten us such oldies but goodies as Rangel walking off with a slap on the wrist, for behavior that would have put anyone of us in jail for a long time, or Dodd & Franks, just to name a couple of big time crooks, getting numerous passes for their criminal activity and roles in the still ongoing economic plunge. And how will they do that you ask?
The Office of Congressional Ethics, a powerful symbol of Democrats’ promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, is in danger of having its power stripped after the midterm elections. Members of the Congressional Black Caucushave led the charge, airing complaints about the aggressive, independent panel in a private session with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, and they’ve drafted a resolution that, if approved, would severely curtail the panel’s power.
But there’s hot competition between the CBC and the official House ethics committee over who has less regard for the Office of Congressional Ethics, also known as the OCE. And the rest of the House doesn’t appear to be far behind in its disdain. Privately, Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and even some congressional leaders, acknowledge that there’s a strong sentiment to change rules that empower the office to publicize investigations and wreak havoc on lawmakers’ political lives. “We might have to take a fresh look, at some point, at the authority of the OCE,” said North Carolina Democratic Rep. G.K. Butterfield, who is a member of both the CBC and the ethics committee.
Of course, nobody wants to be portrayed as loosening ethics in an election year, and Butterfield was quick to point out that change could come as members “promulgate rules for the 112th Congress” in January 2011. That won’t stop lawmakers from venting.
Emphasis mine. So their answer to the fact that so many demcorats are constantly under the microscope for their scummy behaviors, activities, and genral practices isn’t to stop those, but to loosen the rules & regulations, so they can be even more scummy. NICE! The big complaint?
Yet even Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) acknowledges that the House may have to take a second look at the powers of this outside ethics office, which has the authority to publicize its inquiries, unlike the formal House ethics panel, which is much more secretive.
Got it! The problem is people might actually find out how these bastards let each other off and screw us over. That’s good to know. They want to claim they are going to stomp out corruption, which always seems to be perpetuated by the other party only if you listen to them and the MSM, but hate it when they can’t control the flow of information and it becomes obvious they make the republicans look like pikers. Man, that Blago trial freak show has to be causing them all ulcers. Ethics, heh. November can’t get here fast enough for me.
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