Posted on 10/31/2009 12:10:04 PM PDT by unixfox
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.
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I wish these people were doing this honestly but I know they are not. Frankly, they will look until they can find a few Republicans to add to the corruption so they can then use the ‘everybody does it’ excuse.
Sadly, they are not rooting out corruption, they are playing politics again.
(Not that I give Republicans a pass, either. I support outing every corrupt politician in both parties. Republicans tend to get rid of theirs and Democrats reelect theirs.)
Congress is a criminal enterprise.
It’s about time. Now when will they start on the senate, federally appointed judges and Obama’s czars?
Don’t put it past the Dems to call off the ethics investigations. They’ll say that the leaked memo “taints” the whole process. Everybody gets off the hook.
I woudn’t be surprised if the so-called “leak” was planned by the Dems themselves.
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Yeah, and if anyone thinks this is to stop crime, I’ve got a bridge...
This is for blackmail, political leverage pure and simple.
Remember that he was close to getting nabbed in the Abscam scandal in 1980.
He's on tape "negotiating" during that scandal. Maybe there's more to this one and he'll be busted this time along with alot of others.
Time to make scandal and party ID (Dems) happen again.
Committee's findings released, investigations scheduled later
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: No Improprieties
Hearings scheduled next week to support findings
“scrutiny” yes; action, NO
Ya, these guys trade favors. At least with the Mafia we had somebody to persecute the criminals. Now the Govt is the criminal.
The current president and Congress may be the most corrupt govt. in the history of the country.
Pelosi needs more votes for health care. That she would stoop to blackmail is a good sign, I suppose. Even though it's not much of a stoop for her.
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