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First move of Republican congress
Posted: Jan 3, 2017
is to close down the Office of Congressional Ethics which provides the only independent oversight of ethics of members of congress. Way to go Pubs; way to drain the swamp.
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Can you tell us why they're - doing this?
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Because this is a duplicate of an already existing Ethics Board. - it just had different criteria for
[ In Reply To ..]getting a matter before them.
In other words....it was an Obama Board. Maybe look at who got brought up before it instead of the existing Board.
Four partisan Democrats, 3 RINOs and a beltway careerist token “conservative”.
Yes, I know about this. I just wondered if she did. - Apparently she does not.
[ In Reply To ..]Just more fake sensationalism, I suppose.
Can you not state your opinion without being insulting toward others? sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
K. You first. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Let's start by showing some kindness toward the new president and first lady.
There was nothing insulting in her message - nm
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No it's not a duplicate - OABO
[ In Reply To ..]The board they are removing is independent; the other board is controlled by congress; so in effect, they are policing themselves.
Since you don't like my sources - OABO
[ In Reply To ..]Here is the link to Fox News.
This is just a link from AP. Note the sensational headlines. - House GOP votes to "gut"
[ In Reply To ..]independent ethics....
Here's the crucial bit. The "Office of Congressional Ethics" was - established in 2008 under House Democrats
[ In Reply To ..]In other words, it was and is a fan-dance prop used to convince someone they’re seeing something (more) that they’re not when they are ethically challenged themselves.
The Democrats are about as interested in ethics as they are in lumberjack competitions.
Wrong! - sm
[ In Reply To ..]The vote is to CHANGE it, not abolish it.
If you read an objective article (yes, they're out there), you will learn the truth and won't have to resort to sensationalism (like we saw with the fake Vermont hacking story).
The Vermont hacking story was not fake. sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]From the very beginning it was reported that a Vermont Utility Co. was hacked; a laptop that was not connected to the grid was hacked and traced back to Russian malware.
WaPo retracted the story. - It was fake!
[ In Reply To ..]NFC
They did not retract their story, they corrected it. The...sm - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]Burlington Free Press had the story correct from the beginning, as did the local TV news. The laptop that belonged to the Burlington Electric Company was NOT connected to the grid.
'Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Please, no more sensationalism or fake news.
Alternative universe? - Olga
[ In Reply To ..]nm
The leftist MSM and Dem leadership is objecting - because of the optics of it.
[ In Reply To ..]Screw optics. Drain the swamp! Especially duplicate offices.
Check out the article on Fox News - Burt the Cat
[ In Reply To ..]and draw your own conclusions - which I'm sure you will.
I thought that was "faux news" - ???
[ In Reply To ..]???
Just trying to find a source you would accept. - Burt the Cat
[ In Reply To ..]And believe it or not I would think this was an underhanded move even if the Democrats had done it. There have been enough scandals on both sides that independent oversight is definitely warranted! A couple of top Republicans oppose it as well.
Like clockwork some leftists post any and every - Huffy Po and NY Times aticles
[ In Reply To ..]with equally huffy or preachy headline.
They both have an annoying habit of prefacing her posts with things like
"Ominous" or "So it begins"
In reality, most people have never heard of this Ethics Committee and couldn’t name a single thing they had done (assuming any events exist) but it sounds sinister and mysterious and involves the GOP so that’s good enough for the lefties.
You've got that right. - At least we get some good laughs.
[ In Reply To ..]The Ethics Committee under President BO did a lot about ethics, didn't they? So many scandals swept under the rug.
The OCE was created in 2008 under the leadership of - Nancy Pelosi as part of her effort to
[ In Reply To ..]"drain the swamp, providing information to the public, improving transparency"...
LOL! What a joke!
The Republicans correctly figured out that this office - would soon be getting a deluge of
[ In Reply To ..]"complaints" from Democrats about *everything* the Republicans did, with zero regard to any genuine complaints. All done as an effort to slow down or even halt what the Republicans are trying to do.
Remember back to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill fight? The great Democrat quote to come out of the melee was from Nina Totenberg, from NPR, who said during the hearings, “It’s the seriousness of the charge” that matters, not the truth.
Even in the last election, Democrats tried to create an obviously bogus, and even impossible, rumor that Ted Cruz was a serial killer. The Zodiac Killer who operated in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Utterly ridiculous in that Cruz was *born* in 1970.
This was done with the typical Democrat assumption that the public are utter imbeciles, and would disdain Cruz because of “the seriousness of the charge”.
This is why the Republicans limited this “independent” group to just reporting to the House ethics committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, so the Republicans can kill any nonsense or slanderous accusations made against them.
Don't you think - Hail Caesar
[ In Reply To ..]that there have been enough scandals in both parties that independent oversight is needed?
Trump not happy about this. - nm
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Well I will give him a smiley face - OABO
[ In Reply To ..]for that one.
It was voted down. - nm
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