Ney bows out...

WaPo announces that embattled Robert Ney (R-OH) is not seeking re-election.  But the reason why tells all about the Rethuglican mindset.  Follow me...

Amazing they could be so overt...

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) met with Ney last week to urge him to step aside, reminding him that with a son in college and a daughter nearing college age, he will need money, according to several congressional Republican aides. If he lost his House seat for the party, Boehner is said to have cautioned, Ney could not expect a lucrative career on K Street to pay those tuition bills, along with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees piling up.

"Ultimately this decision came down to my family. I must think of them first, and I can no longer put them through this ordeal," Ney said in a one-paragraph statement.

UnbeLIEVable!!!

•  Never mind the campaigns

  K-Street will pay your for your family.  

  Quid pro quo.  Back in Abscam days, people would go to jail for taking money for personal uses, in return for making specific policy decisions.  Where is the enforcement here?  

  by Eikyu Saha on Tue Aug 08, 2006 at 04:00:52 AM PDT