Top Democrat on House Ethics Panel Steps Down Temporarily.

If he's a guilty scumbag he needs to go... how else is it supposed to play out?

Let's check the scorecard... one Democrat. Tom DeLay under indictment and facing criminal charges; Bill Frist facing SEC and Justice Dept. investigations; Karl Rove a suspect in commiting treason.

Yeah, I can see why someone would want to spotlight the Democrat, alright.

Pay no attention to the crowd of men behind the curtain!

Because "some" republicians have been busted it isn't right to investigate the democrates as well? I didn't know only one party could be guilty of things and the other completly innocent. It should be spread across the board on investigations. You know as well as I do that both are guilty it just find it funny that when a dem gets busted everyone turns the other direction and wants to only focus on the reps.

You know the funniest thing about this whole thing is the fact that the head of the ethics panel is going to face charges. Most funny.

Yes, almost as amusing as the "morality" party leading head and shoulders above the rest in indictments and investigations...

Maybe corruption is a family value of which I was unaware.

Indict all scumbags regardless of party and let the chips fall where they may.

Democrat under investigation - leaves his position of authority.

Delay - didn't leave leadership until indicted
Frist - still holds his leadership position while under investigation
Rove - still works at WH while under investigation
Libby - worked at WH until indicted
Ney - ?


Interesting that someone would leave their authority position BEFORE being indicted. A sense of decency perhaps?

the dems need to cross their t's and dot their i's and not let this opportunity to regain power slip through their fingers, that's for sure.

Frankly, I don't care which party they belong to, they should be prosecuted if they're dirty. But this is such an obvious sleight of hand ploy. Don't pay attention to the rampant culture of corruption in the GOP, look over here at this guy! If politicians were magicians, the Republican Party would be Siegfried, Roy, David Copperfield and David Blaine all rolled into one.

It may be good for the Democrats, but it's just plain horrible for the country, that they're too busy screwing the public to actually govern. Of course, for the GOP screwing the public appears to BE their definition of governing!

Blacksmithin got that right.

Parados makes the right point - the Dem is stepping down during the investigation.

That alone puts his conduct way above the myriad Republicans under the gun this cycle.

Cycloptichorn