moral values party at it again?

[Magyar]

Five members of each party serve on the House ethics panel and under the current system, a tie vote would launch an ethics probe. Under the new rule, a tie or failure to make a decision within 45 days would mean no action would be taken.

A partnership of watchdog groups calling itself the Congressional Ethics Coalition said the changes "would sharply increase the incentive for partisan, deadlock votes on the committee, and would go a long way toward guaranteeing that most ethics complaints would be dead on arrival."

The came shortly after House Republicans dropped a rule they had endorsed just a few weeks ago that would have allowed Majority Leader Tom DeLay to retain his leadership position even if he is indicted in his home state of Texas.

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So it seems to me that the reps just simply changed stratagies.
The first plan was a little too bold even for the idolaters, so now they fell back to a plan that will simply allow ethics issues to dissapear in Bureaucracy.

 

[Snide]

For clarity, didn't they drop the law that would have disallowed DeLay to retain his post?

Edited to add: OK, I get it now. They abandoned their plan....

 

[Luke T.]

Speaking of ethics, the OP is a word for word match to this Reuters story.

 

[Luke T.]

I suppose the tie-must-inititiate-an-investigation rule could be seen two ways. A party that wanted to badger and annoy another party could lodge a series of nuisance ethics complaints, resulting in tie votes along party lines over and over, and cause a bunch of costly, time-consuming investigations that would cast the defendents in a non-stop bad light, making it a useful political tool in a body that has to get re-elected every two years.

 

[hgc]

I suppose the tie-must-inititiate-an-investigation rule could be seen two ways. A party that wanted to badger and annoy another party could lodge a series of nuisance ethics complaints, resulting in tie votes along party lines over and over, and cause a bunch of costly, time-consuming investigations that would cast the defendents in a non-stop bad light, making it a useful political tool in a body that has to get re-elected every two years.

Yes! That's exactly what's been happening to DeLay. Now, at last, they'll leave him alone.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I suppose the tie-must-inititiate-an-investigation rule could be seen two ways. A party that wanted to badger and annoy another party could lodge a series of nuisance ethics complaints, resulting in tie votes along party lines over and over, and cause a bunch of costly, time-consuming investigations that would cast the defendents in a non-stop bad light, making it a useful political tool in a body that has to get re-elected every two years.

Like making a giant fuss over a BJ?

 

[Luke T.]

Like making a giant fuss over a BJ?

Exactly. When you are President of the U.S., you should get better looking women. It was downright unethical the women Clinton chose to "not have sexual relations" with.

 

[Cleon]

Exactly. When you are President of the U.S., you should get better looking women. It was downright unethical the women Clinton chose to "not have sexual relations" with.

On THAT, I agree entirely.