Hah! This is damned hilarious. With alligators up to their asses due to the Abramoff and other Repub scandals, the Repubs are suddenly wanting the ethics committee up and running to prosecute Dems, Novak says. Of course, with no defense all the Repubs can do is attack. This is a no-win proposition for those greedy fools. And of course Novak puts his Repub spin at the end of this opinion piece:
From TownHall.com :
Ethics wars
Jan 28, 2006
by Robert Novak
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans, wounded by lobbyist scandals, have called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate more than 10 Democratic members headed by Jan Schakowsky of Illinois and Nydia Velazquez of New York.
Schakowsky's husband, consumer advocate Robert Creamer, has been indicted in a check-kiting scheme. The congresswoman co-signed Creamer's allegedly fraudulent tax returns. Velazquez is accused of violating House ethics guidelines by using her congressional office to endorse Judge Margarita Lopez Torres as Brooklyn Surrogate Court judge.
Democrats on the Ethics Committee are no more eager to explore these cases than Republicans are to investigate their accused colleagues. The only House committee evenly divided by party, Ethics is currently immobilized.
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