The Challenge of the Ethically Challenged
Republican Representative Rick Renzi’s business was raided by the FBI in April, and Representative John Doolittle’s house was raided by the FBI earlier this year as well. Neither of those guys is on any committees any more. And neither is Democrat William Jefferson, whose freezer the FBI discovered last year contained $80,000 in cold, hard cash. All the FBI have to do is identify one more crook in the Democratic party, and we could send all four of them home and never have to see them again. Sure, it’s unlikely any of these guys is likely to give up his six-figure job at a time when no one else is likely to offer them one, but they could sit at home to collect it. Or, failing that, we could send them on a fact-finding trip to Iraq , and not bring them back.
Most of the real work in Congress happens in the committees these disgraced folks no longer belong to, and there’s no way Renzi and Jefferson , for instance, would vote the same way on any issue that’s even remotely controversial on the House floor. Plus we’d never have to see or hear from them again. It’s a win-win.
Most of the real work in Congress happens in the committees these disgraced folks no longer belong to, and there’s no way Renzi and Jefferson , for instance, would vote the same way on any issue that’s even remotely controversial on the House floor. Plus we’d never have to see or hear from them again. It’s a win-win.
