Posted on 08/16/2009 3:16:40 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
As the old Irish toast goes, may your sins be judged by the Senate ethics committee. Actually that's not an Irish toast but it must be the fervent hope of every politician who received a "Friend of Angelo" loan from former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo. Late last week the six Senators on the ethics panel dismissed complaints against Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd with a mere admonishment about the appearance of impropriety.
The three Republican and three Democratic Senators say they conducted an exhaustive probe and inspected 18,000 pages of documents. They say they found "no substantial credible evidence as required by Committee rules" that the Senators received mortgage rates or services that weren't commonly available to the public, and thus did not violate the Senate gift ban.
We'll have to take their word that the evidence wasn't "substantial," because they didn't release those documents, nor did they encourage Mr. Dodd to release any of his records. Readers will recall that in February Mr. Dodd staged a peek-a-boo release with selected reporters but did not allow anyone to have copies of the documents. If the evidence was so clear-cut, why the months of stonewalling?
The Associated Press may have the answer......
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
How did our Republic ever get to the point where there are so many cheap whores and morons in charge of the government?
‘Cause it’s been way too long since they were thinned out.
Not enough ....tar....feathers...
We’ll have to take their word that the evidence wasn’t “substantial,” We all know how that turns out BAD.
We elected them. And the founding fathers forgot to include term limits in the Bill of Rights.
“Admonishment”? I didn’t even know that was a word. Wouldn’t “admonition” be what they are looking for?
Whores on both sides of the aisle. I don’t know who the Republican senators were who agreed to this (takes too long to download the Journal), but when their time comes they should get the boot.
This claim of exhaustive study brought to us by the same people who can not read a bill before passage.
Very slowly.
They started studying it, but around 3 pm they felt exhausted and decided to simply exhonerate the two senators, so they could go party with them.
And who did they happen to be?
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