That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve. |
That's because there's an ethics truce. Both parties will deny this, but there is in fact a truce that's been in existence since 1998. And under the terms of the truce nobody will file a complaint against a member of the other party. |
The House Ethics Committee doesn't look at anything. |
The House has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility to police itself. There is still no member of Congress, in either party, willing to file an ethics complaint. |
The little trust Americans had in Congress will once again be destroyed by greedy and unscrupulous members of Congress that care more about their skybox seats and golf trips than upholding the law. |
The members can't afford it. The people who are most interested in their campaigns are people with interests in Washington. |
The noose is tightening around his neck. [DeLay] was running a criminal enterprise out of his office. There was no way he did not know what was going on. |
The only way to get an FOI request honored these days is to go to court. We can go to court and win, but some regular person is not going to know how to file a complaint in federal court and prepare a brief arguing that the administration is in violation of the law. And no one has endless resources to fight every denial. It's very effective, what they've done. They keep the information hidden. |
The problem is, they don't want to enforce the ethics rules, and they don't have any interest in enforcing ethics rules. |
The way that they've presented it makes it look more independent than it in fact is, and that's misleading. |
They all violated ethics rules. |
They should be nervous. It won't be long before Bob Ney is indicted. It will probably take a little while longer for them to build their case against Tom DeLay. |
This is a big deal, |
This is going to be one of the biggest congressional scandals ever. |
This reminds me of 1994, |