Tag Archives: Office of Congressional Ethics

Still Bush's fault

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We’ve seen former president George W. Bush take the blame for the economy, lack of jobs, and even the BP oil spill. Now, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has found something new to blame ole’ W. for: her own ethics violations.

Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems — saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds — including one tied to her husband — because the Treasury Department wouldn’t schedule its own appointments.

The California Democrat said in a Capitol Hill news conference — an event rarely held during a congressional recess — that she reached out to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in late 2008 when his department failed to respond to the National Bank Association’s request for a meeting.

Of course, this sort of corruption shouldn’t come as a surprise from someone who, from 1996-2004 had relatives earning a collective total of $1 million from companies that Waters had helped in her role as Congresswoman.

Unfortunately, Maxine Waters is black, however. Therefore, I’m a racist.

Democrats Culture of Corruption

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Remember this, from way back in 2006:

Well, the Democrats tried the whole “honest” thing and found out that they didn’t really like it. While it is laughable that the party of: William ‘cold cash‘ Jefferson, Christopher ‘friends of Angelo‘ Dodd, Harry ‘land scam‘ Reid, Eric Massa (I figure Mr. ‘tickle fights’ doesn’t need an explanation), Nancy Pelosi and so forth was ever considered the party of ethics and integrity, the latest move by Pelosi’s team is illuminating, to say the least.

Yesterday, John Fund reported:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sending private signals that she is willing to support watering down the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics, the panel she and fellow Democrats created last year to serve as a new watchdog on congressional misconduct.

Susan Crabtree of The Hill newspaper reports on a meeting late in May between members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Speaker Pelosi. The Speaker heard a litany of complaints about the OCE’s aggressiveness and its public release of documents that reflected badly on the reputations of members.

So, to clarify, the House is going to neuter the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) because…. it’s too effective? Isn’t the OCE’s stated purpose to find documents and information that reflect poorly on members of Congress? If the OCE isn’t supposed to find and reveal damning information, what is it supposed to do? Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats ran against the Republican ‘culture of corruption.’ The 2006 election was purportedly about honesty and integrity. Jack Abramoff and Mark Foley were the Democrats keystones. Pelosi promised to lead the “most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” After 4 years of lies, deceptions, backroom deals, and mass corruption, it is only fitting that the Democrats are poised to officially renounce anti-corruption measures and publicly embrace the  the culture of corruption.