1000 Cuts, eh... Well Mr. DeLay, here's a few more.
Tomorrows (Monday 3/14) Washington Post has a Editorial in'Warning: Ethics-Free Zone'
This hard hitting piece discusses how & why the House has no mechanism for investigating or disciplining members who violate ethics rules.
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Republicans are now trying, laughably, to portray the impasse as the result of Democrats' refusal to "put the ethics process above partisan politics," as a spokesman for House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) put it. Democrats have no lack of partisanship on this issue, but the GOP spin is hard to take from the people who rigged the rules and changed the players when they didn't like the result. Mr. Mollohan now has a single Republican, Rep. Christopher Shays (Conn.), co-sponsoring his resolution. We would hope that -- especially in light of new ethical questions involving Mr. DeLay -- additional members of the majority will sign on, putting the long-term good of the institution ahead of the short-term interests of those with the greatest stake in an ineffectual ethics process.