House Republicans Weaken Ethics Rules

[Dr Ron]

House Republicans have proposed further rules changes to erode ethics rules (and keep DeLay out of the dog house).

More information at Light Up the Darkness Blog (http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/default.asp) and the Unofficial Kerry for President Blog (http://kerryblog.blogspot.com)

[Peter Frank]

1. Go figure...

...justice is justice -- until one party controls all branches of government.

The free press is where energies need to be focused.

[Dr Ron]

3. They are already focusing energies on the free press

Fox News is their model.

[Spinzonner]

2. Republican Ethics is an oxymoron

[Dr Ron]

4. Institutionalizing the Lack of Ethics

Lack of ethics has been the de facto situation. The difference is that they now seek to undermine the institutions which, in theory, might respond to this problem. Of course the ethics committee never had any teeth, but its still preferable to have them able to reprimand De Lay (even if it means little) than to have no reprimands at all.