OK, it appears that Michelle Bachmann (Taliban-MN) has won re-election, despite a rush of support to Elwyn Tinklenberg, following her statement that liberal members of Congress were, anti-American:
When asked by Matthews "How many people in the Congress of the United States do you suspect as being anti-American?" she replied "What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see an expose like that."
This is direct accusation that some of her fellow representatives are anti-American.
We know that it's repulsive, but it's also a violation of House ethics rules.
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Page 16 of the House Ethics Manual (PDF), in the section titled Conduct Reflecting Creditably on the House:
A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House. [House Rule 23, clause 1.]
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Making statements that impugned the reputation of the House, failing to cooperate fully with fact-finding being undertaken by the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, threatening to retaliate against a fellow Member because of the Member‘s vote on particular legislation, and offering a political endorsement for a relative of a Member in exchange for vote by the Member in favor of particular legislation.
Let's be clear, I'm not a nut, I'm a lunkhead.™ I don't think that the house should refuse to seat Bachmann, that should have been done by the voters of the 6th district of Minnesota.
However, her statements are a clear violation of House ethics rules, and I do think that the ethics committee should hold hearings.
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I would note that I would support censure. FWIW, a congressman who accused Tom Delay of threats and intimidation was reprimanded by the HEC for impugning the reputation of the House, IIRC.