Dem Ethics
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The RS Insider sees that even the Kos Kids are catching on to the fact that Congressional Democrats just haven’t been that interested in passing the Congressional ethics reform on which they campaigned. The RS Insider can confirm that many Republicans on the Hill aren’t very happy about it either, especially since the Ethics and Lobby Reform Act contained the DeMint Amendment bringing transparency to earmarks.
The Democratic approach to ethics reform are nicely demonstrated in the beginning and end of this Politico story…
- [BEGINNING] As House Democrats tackle a lobbying reform bill that they pledged to adopt on the midterm campaign trail, reformers say that a number of the members are privately questioning its necessity after all.
- [END] [T]his reporter asked [House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel] -- in the effort for openness and disclosure -- if a journalist could sit in to hear debate on the language. "Why don't you go f--- yourself?" Emanuel replied, as he entered a men's room in the Capitol basement.
One of these things is a lot like the other.
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Congressional Democrats just haven’t been that interested in passing the Congressional ethics reform on which they campaigned.
What do you expect, after 90 (count 'em! -- NINETY!) of them have received money from Jack Abramoff and/or his related organizations since 1990, as the network news and big-city papers have reminded us over and over and over again ... ?
Oh, wait. What? They haven't? Oh well, never mind.
NO!! -- HOLD IT!! MIND!
MIND, I TELL YOU !!!
It's now up to US and only us to get the word out.
Send THIS to everyone you can and ask them to do the same.
to actually be ethical, after all they really did write the play book on unethical behavior, they have just gotten more of a pass on it for the last 12 years, while the GOP was in charge.