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Black lawmakers push to cut back new ethics office
AP/YahooNews ^ | 6/2/10 | BEN EVANS

Posted on 06/02/2010 12:23:48 PM PDT by Kartographer

Stung by a series of inquiries, nearly half the members of the Congressional Black Caucus want to scale back the aggressive ethics procedures that Democrats trumpeted after gaining control of Congress.

Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and 19 fellow black lawmakers in the all-Democratic caucus quietly introduced a resolution last week that would restrict the powers of the new independent Office of Congressional Ethics. The office, formed by Congress in 2008, is run by a panel of private citizens.

Black caucus Chairwoman Barbara Lee, D-Calif., is among the sponsors, but the full 42-member caucus did not endorse the measure. Lee declined comment through a spokesman.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006election; 2010electionbias; cbc; cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; draintheswamp; ethics; nothingtoseehere; oce; pelosicongress
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"Lee declined comment through a spokesman."

I wonder why? ;-)

1 posted on 06/02/2010 12:23:48 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

They just want to “keep it real”.


2 posted on 06/02/2010 12:25:12 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Even the earth is bipolar.)
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To: Kartographer
Stung by a series of inquiries, nearly half the members of the Congressional Black Caucus want to scale back the aggressive ethics procedures that Democrats trumpeted after gaining control of Congress.

Most ethical Congress in history?

Nancy Pelosi should step down in SHAME.

3 posted on 06/02/2010 12:25:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: a fool in paradise

This would be laughable if it weren’t so funny.


4 posted on 06/02/2010 12:26:45 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Kartographer

Ethics can be a real pain in the ass to corrupt politicians. The District of Corruption is more corrupt now than during any other time in history.


5 posted on 06/02/2010 12:26:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("A Republic, If You Can Keep It" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Stalinists don’t care. They don’t care about ethics. They don’t care about morals. They don’t care about laws. They don’t care about hypocrisy.

Saul Alinsky taught Democrats well how to lie and push an agenda.


6 posted on 06/02/2010 12:28:23 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: Kartographer

The CBC has it all figured out, gut the OCE and the Dems won’t have to worry about ethics violations. Pathetic!


7 posted on 06/02/2010 12:29:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Kartographer

Popinjays - or better, perhaps, a shameful minstrel show, performed by a group best named after the Chamber where they serve. (”House.”)


8 posted on 06/02/2010 12:31:06 PM PDT by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: Kartographer

Isn’t Congressional Black Caucus an oxymoron in the politically correct sense?


9 posted on 06/02/2010 12:31:47 PM PDT by Ben Mugged (Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
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To: Kartographer

A case of wanting to speak power to truth.


10 posted on 06/02/2010 12:32:48 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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C’mon folks, it’s just another facet of affirmative action.


11 posted on 06/02/2010 12:33:14 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: a fool in paradise
These cats didn't learn this from Alinsky. They were well-schooled long before that over-rated dead radical purloined the material for his nasty book.

I doubt any of them had heard of Alinsky, let alone read his book, before BO. I would be surprised if any of them have yet. Why should they? They are anti-Semites, after all.

This is just plain hateful. And, we may need to dip into a more classic vocabulary to illustrate and draw attention to this kind of timeless evil.

12 posted on 06/02/2010 12:35:52 PM PDT by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: Kartographer

Someone needs to post that picture of Rangel looking like a beached whale.


13 posted on 06/02/2010 12:36:29 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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To: Kartographer

We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics office!


14 posted on 06/02/2010 12:37:17 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: a fool in paradise
I seem to recall Nixon being given a hard time over Watergate by an Independent Counsel.
I seem to recall Reagan being given a hard time over Iran Contra by an Independent Counsel.
I seem to recall Clinton getting rid of the office of Independent Counsel around about the time that Whitewater became an issue.

Democrats love deep investigations -- but not when they're in power.

15 posted on 06/02/2010 12:38:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Prospero

The SDS and Weather Underground partnered with Black Panthers and Black Nationalist groups back in the 1960s and 1970s.

Common blood.


16 posted on 06/02/2010 12:38:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: BipolarBob

What’s the point of gaining power if you can’t use the office to get rich?

Seriously, I think this is engrained in the culture.


17 posted on 06/02/2010 12:39:18 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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Stupid move by the Black Caucus....reinforces common perception that blacks once again support lower standards, but now for ethics. If the measure has merit, let some other entity propose it....


18 posted on 06/02/2010 12:39:41 PM PDT by Enten (How's that hopey changey thing working out for you?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The “independent counsel” is either in vogue or out of favor depending on who’s in power.


19 posted on 06/02/2010 12:40:13 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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Black caucus Chairwoman Barbara Lee, D-Calif., is among the sponsors, but the full 42-member caucus did not endorse the measure.

Guess that means she has some ethic problems and needs them to go away...


20 posted on 06/02/2010 12:44:27 PM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA, Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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