Posted on 01/02/2007 9:56:46 AM PST by george76
There is so much wrong with the Conyers situation that Pelosi shouldnt have to think twice about nixing Conyers chairmanship. Let us look at how the Conyers scandal epitomizes the ethics mess in the House:
First, releasing its report late on Friday before the New Years holiday weekend made it clear that the House Ethics Committee intended to minimize public understanding of the Conyers scandal. This is classic Washington Establishment manipulation of the news cycle to insulate itself against public accountability.
Second, Conyers responded to the Ethics committee by accepting responsibility for a lack of clarity in asking aides to work on his re-election campaign while on the official payroll instead of going on a campaign staff, as the law requires, and to do personal chores for him. The allegations came from senior staff members, including a former chief of staff, not interns or other short-term aides who might have questionable motives.
Third, the Ethics committee report also concerned a second investigation of Conyers from 2003 on allegations that his aides also worked on the Carol Mosely-Braun presidential campaign and JoAnn Watsons Detroit City Council race. Would Conyers have applied the same slipshod legal standards to his Bush impeachment effort?
Fourth, the Conyers scandal shows its still business as usual for the Ethics committee. Pelosi should demand that Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., the committee leaders who signed off on the Conyers report, be removed permanently from the panel and barred from leadership of other House panels.
Finally, Pelosi should heed ... Leon Panetta, who said you can attack one party for having a lack of ethics, but if any of your own members have problems, it dulls the message with the American people, they begin to put everybody in the same box.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
**Editorial: Is Pelosi serious about cleaning up the House? **
How about her own wine business in California -- cleaning that up first. She has a lot of skeletons in her own closet. Can't do anything about other's skeletons until she deals with her own.
Just a lot of nonsensical talk.
Really. They haven't even served an hour yet and they're the most corrupt leadership the House has ever seen (at least in terms of breadth, not depth).
She's from the D'Alesandro family in Baltimore and her father ("Big Tommy") was one of the most corrupt mayors in the country.
Her older brother ("Little Tommy"), who was once arrested for rape but never went to trial because none of the witnesses could be located to testify against him, was also one of the most corrupt mayors in the country.
A few things they forgot to note: She is unable to blink. She's had so many facelifts, she eats through her belly button.
Their vineyard profits barely cover her Botox costs.
Her husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers): Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in the Senate, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
But the BIG problem is, the MSM will spin her into Joan of Ark!
smoke and mirrors
Wasn't aware of this deal. This family is CORRUPT!
A New Voter Fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733941/posts
Culture of Corruption.
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