Dems keep Jefferson off Ways and Means

I wasn't aware these very same circumstances had occurred before. Care to fill us in?

 

Barbarian observes:
Under the very same circumstances, probably.

We already know the answer. No, they didn't.

Unless you've been living in a cave, bribery and corruption cases with Congressmen should be entirely familiar to you. When DeLay (to cite the most egregious case) came up, instead of taking away his position, the GOP's initial reaction was to change the rules to help him.

Oh, wait. You mean that the GOP never had a congressman named "Jefferson" who was caught in corruption? Maybe so. Why do you think the name makes a difference? Or was it something besides his name? What, exactly?

 

That's what I thought.

Not the very same circumstances at all. Not really even very close.

 

Unless there is a clear legal reason for his cool cash, he should be tried and booted out of congress.

 

Ah... I get it. He's a democrat and all those other crooks are republicans.

"That's different."

OK, I get it.

Ronald Reagan on the Republican 11th commandment:
"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0402/0402eleventhcommandment.htm

Thanks for explaining it to me.

 

You have this lesson backward. It is the Republicans that hold their own to the fire. Not the Dems. Look at all the trouble Polosi is having seating her chairmanships.

 

Galatian posted:

"Unless you've been living in a cave, bribery and corruption cases with Congressmen should be entirely familiar to you. When DeLay (to cite the most egregious case) came up, instead of taking away his position, the GOP's initial reaction was to change the rules to help him."


I notice that Carpro just skated right over this without his usual sarcastic comment.

 

Barbarian observes:
Ah... I get it. He's a democrat and all those other crooks are republicans.

"That's different."

OK, I get it.

Ronald Reagan on the Republican 11th commandment:
"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
http://www.enterstageright.com/archi...ommandment.htm

Thanks for explaining it to me.

Doesn't seem like it. Republicans are outraged about a democrat in ethics troubles, but changed ethics rules to protect DeLay. Reagan's message seems to have taken hold in the GOP.

See above. As crooked as DeLay and other republicans were, the leadership moved to protect them.

So they're being subjected to critical scrutiny by democrats. It's telling that you find this to be objectionable.