TEA PARTY TO AMERICA: NOW WHAT?!

That's just radical liberal anti-gun bullsh!t.

Of which we need more. It is ethical and reality based.

Only paranoids and criminals "need" guns.

True.

The Mexican drug war is fueled by our stupid war on drugs.

Only paranoids and criminals "need" guns.

Only paranoids and criminals "need" guns.

POMade, your ignorance and stupidity grows stronger with each passing day.

and liberals will or will not support gun rights and it doesnt hurt our position in the "progressive movement".
Unlike conservatives who must drink the entire pitcher of kool-aid.

Liberal= "big tent"
Conservative="The BORG"

Published: November 14, 2010



BOEHNER TO DISMANTLE CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS COMMITTEE As he approaches the duties of speaker of the House, Representative John Boehner is generously asking one and all for ideas on “how we can make this institution function again.” Mr. Boehner did not mention dysfunction, but that’s apparently in the works, too, according to reports that he will likely dismantle the quasi-independent Office of Congressional Ethics.

Outraged taxpayers who voted against business as usual in Washington should be dumbfounded. Congress’s Tea Party newcomers should be the first to protect the office.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the agency in 2008, in the wake of the scandals featuring Jack Abramoff, the eventually imprisoned megalobbyist who had V.I.P. clout with the previous Republican majority.

The staff of nonpartisan professionals has worked hard to stiffen the spine of the House ethics committee. The office has issued more than a score of preliminary reports pointing to possible abuses and prodding the committee toward hearings on alleged violations by Representatives Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters. It has been what the public long needed — an alert to possible abuses traditionally buried under Congressional arrogance.

Lawmakers from both parties cited for scrutiny demanded that the office be scrapped. Ms. Pelosi resisted. That, of course, didn’t stop campaigning Republicans from accusing her of failing to fulfill her pledge to “drain the swamp” of Congressional corruption.

The clear implication was that they would offer even stronger ethics policing. Certainly more could be done. The office would be far more effective if its investigators were accorded subpoena power to cut through members’ resistance. There’s been no mention of that, or any ethics reform, in the boilerplate agendas issued so far by Republican leaders.

The new speaker should protect and bolster the Office of Congressional Ethics. The last thing Congress needs is a retreat to the days of good old boy self-policing and no real accountability.

Relax Farmer, someday a white man's gonna to be elected President again.