Posted on 01/02/2007 9:56:46 AM PST by george76
There is so much wrong with the Conyers situation that Pelosi shouldn’t have to think twice about nixing Conyers’ chairmanship. Let us look at how the Conyers scandal epitomizes the ethics mess in the House:
First, releasing its report late on Friday before the New Year’s holiday weekend made it clear that the House “Ethics” Committee intended to minimize public understanding of the Conyers scandal. This is classic Washington Establishment manipulation of the news cycle to insulate itself against public accountability.
Second, Conyers responded to the “Ethics” committee by “accepting responsibility” for a “lack of clarity” in asking aides to work on his re-election campaign while on the official payroll instead of going on a campaign staff, as the law requires, and to do personal chores for him. The allegations came from senior staff members, including a former chief of staff, not interns or other short-term aides who might have questionable motives.
Third, the “Ethics” committee report also concerned a second investigation of Conyers from 2003 on allegations that his aides also worked on the Carol Mosely-Braun presidential campaign and JoAnn Watson’s Detroit City Council race. Would Conyers have applied the same slipshod legal standards to his Bush impeachment effort?
Fourth, the Conyers scandal shows it’s still business as usual for the “Ethics” committee. Pelosi should demand that Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., the committee leaders who signed off on the Conyers report, be removed permanently from the panel and barred from leadership of other House panels.
Finally, Pelosi should heed ... Leon Panetta, who said “you can attack one party for having a lack of ethics, but if any of your own members have problems, it dulls the message with the American people, they begin to put everybody in the same box.”
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
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If you have to ask, you are reading and watching the MSM too much.
Of course not.
Let me
I don't hear the proclamations of "the most ethical congress ever" any more. Apparently they would like to avoid reminding America of the E word.
Pelosi's "clean up the House" means removing Republicans from positions of power or driving them out entirely, using House rules and "investigations".
It does not mean cleaning up the house of ethics violators and common criminals. Are you kidding? That would return power to the pubbies!
Hmmm.
Here are some possible responses, in the form of rhetorical questions.
Does a bear crap in the men's restroom?
Is the Pope Muslim?
Is the sky iridescent green?
Do "progressives" really care about the poor?
Cleaning, with Nancy
Pelosi was flapping her gums,
While her face hinted she needed Tums.
She longed to clean House,
To squash-dead each louse
Alas! She's learned Libs are the bums.
I've talked to plenty of liberals who claim to be outraged about clear ethics violations and crimes of democrats. Unfortunately their "outrage" extends to somewhere just short of actually calling for action.
That's because so many liberals are unethical themselves.
sun comes up in east,
water is wet.
Film at 11.
http://www.redstate.com/stories/the_parties/democrats/bipartisanship_is_dead
Bipartisanship is Dead
Pulosi learned everything from her father who let Lucky Luciano treat Baltimore like a candy store.
I hope she is, and I think she should be supplied with a broom and a mop. Does she do windows?
" this witch is the same women who owns more then a few vineyards in Napa Valley and will only hire non-union firms to pick their grapes. Why? Because they don't have to pay a "living wage" to the workers then.
She also owns a large stake in the ritzy hotel in Napa called Auberge du Soleil. All employee's are non-union.
She is also a partner in the restaurant chain Piatti…again, all non-union. "
http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/08/04/nancy-pelosi-the-sky-is-falling/
Another big issue is the environment. She always makes statements that, with us, the environment is not an issue, it’s an ethic, it’s a value. Which is a nice way of saying, “I love the environment, but not when it comes to our own businesses.”
in 1996, Nancy Pelosi and her husband and fewer than 10 other partners wanted to build a golf course and country club outside of San Jose, California, called the CordeValle Country Club.
They never followed the environmental regulations. The ponds were never built for these endangered species. For seven years, they also failed to file any of the environmental reports required by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission.
A 2004 County Environmental Compliance Report found all kinds of environmental problems on the Pelosi's golf course.
What does that actually mean in practical terms? Did they turn around and build this habitat and comply?
No, they solved the problem the old-fashioned way: they hired lobbyists and they got the environmental regulations changed.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22207
"Editorial: Is Pelosi serious about cleaning up the House? "
Only the Republican side.
Short answer - HELL NO!
For one, she's interested in a four-day bacchanal to celebrate her assumption of the monarchy. As for ethics, look no further than John Conyers!
Clean up is not the word. Kill and destroy are the words.
Just as serious as I am when I say I'm going to stop drinking beer and that I'm tall dark and handsome.
Fat, Slim, ... & Notta...
Here is her best helper.
Barney fag can't wait.
For those who don't already know this, Pelosi REFUSED to demand that Studds('Rat congressman who was having an affair with a page) to resign AND ENDORSED HIS REELECTION.
So Pelosi has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.
To Pelosi, "cleaning it up", mean whitewashing it.
Answer: No, just in witch-hunts against conservatives and Republicans...
Just like she is serious about her Catholic faith I guess. I found it a little revolting when she made the sign of the cross when she paid her respects at President Ford's casket. All those dead babies would find that gesture just a bit hypocritical.
Bela is interested in only one thing -- POWER -- hers and the RATs.
Hell hath no fury like a Bela Pelosi in charge of the House of Representatives. We can only hope and pray that the GOP members can keep her in check.
So Pelosi has about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.
Does a bear crap in the men's restroom?
Are you talking about Papa Bear, Mama Bear or Baby Bear?
Is the Pope Muslim?
Have you asked him?
Is the sky iridescent green?
I'm color blind and it might be.
Do "progressives" really care about the poor?
Absolutely. As long as you don't whine about my using your country club dues to pay the tab.
My tongue in cheek replies are meant to warn you right here and now that Democrats know how to run Congress and if Nancy isn't up to the task she'll be gone in a nano-second...and Democrats know how to get Bob Woodward to speak to the dead, without a medium and the Republicans are going to be severely and justifiably punished for being disloyal to their President.
Thanks for the upbeat take on everything...
Frankly the President as a lame duck is better off working with a Democrat Congress. No names to name and no promises to keep.
She can clean my house, it's filthy.
Did you hear the one about the hooker who went up to a really old guy on the street and said,
"For 50 bucks I'll do anything you want."
And he replied,
"Anything? For 50 bucks?"
She nodded yes.
He replied,
"Paint my house"
If she did, they'd have her out of there, flickering tongue,nictitating membrane and rattling tale in a second.
Someone's got to do it.
If you think the GOP was bad. Just give the Democrats a couple of years in office. They will make the last congress look clean in comparison.
No she is not serious about it. Wouldn't even occur to her. And if it did, her demo colleagues would disabuse her of that quaint notion.
**Editorial: Is Pelosi serious about cleaning up the House? **
How about her own wine business in California -- cleaning that up first. She has a lot of skeletons in her own closet. Can't do anything about other's skeletons until she deals with her own.
Just a lot of nonsensical talk.
Really. They haven't even served an hour yet and they're the most corrupt leadership the House has ever seen (at least in terms of breadth, not depth).
She's from the D'Alesandro family in Baltimore and her father ("Big Tommy") was one of the most corrupt mayors in the country.
Her older brother ("Little Tommy"), who was once arrested for rape but never went to trial because none of the witnesses could be located to testify against him, was also one of the most corrupt mayors in the country.
A few things they forgot to note: She is unable to blink. She's had so many facelifts, she eats through her belly button.
Their vineyard profits barely cover her Botox costs.
Her husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers): Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in the Senate, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
But the BIG problem is, the MSM will spin her into Joan of Ark!
smoke and mirrors
Wasn't aware of this deal. This family is CORRUPT!
A New Voter Fraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733941/posts
Culture of Corruption.
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