I Just Want What Nancy Pelosi Promised Me
I’m pretty sure we were promised “the most honest, the most open and the most ethical Congress in history” ?
So what is this mess we’re actually getting?
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.
Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn’t a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments – not direct federal dollars.
Admittely, that’s happening in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have any real sway over there. Technically, we can’t hold her responsible for gross ethical breaches by Democratic Senators, even if she did include the whole Congress in her promise. But we can hold her accountable for what happens in the House. So how are things on the side of Congress she does control?
House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have ratcheted up the pressure on their rank-and-file members to oppose a resolution calling for an ethics committee investigation into the ties between key Democrats and a controversial defense-lobbying firm.
Democratic leaders have told their members they should let the ethics panel do its work and stop supporting a measure sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) that calls for an ethics probe into political donations from the now-defunct PMA Group lobbying firm and earmarks its clients received.
Hmm…seems she’s part of the problem, doesn’t it? A clever Republican Party might be able to take some advantage of Speaker Pelosi’s frequently-broken promise. Assuming, of course, that we still have a clever Republican Party.
Other Posts of Interest:
- While Burris Flails, Dems Worry About Keeping the Seat.
- Pelosi Says The GOP is Superfluous. She’ll Pass the Budget As-Is.
- Dem Honchos Say Superdelegates Must Commit This Week or…They’ll Cry or Something
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It seems like a long time since we've seen any evidence of a clever Republican party.
I can't dispute you on that, but perhaps there's some sign of cleverness still remaining.
Won't work. The democrats don't care if their side lies & cheats. It means nothing to the people who vote for them. So while Republicans, when confronted w/ a liar or cheater in their ranks, generally do whatever is needed to drive them from their ranks – no similar action is taken on the other side.