I’ve Seen A Drained Swamp. That’s Not It.
I have a new post up at the American Issues Project. I decided to take a little tour around “”the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history”. What I found wasn’t anywhere close to the accountability and transparency we were promised.
Democrats took power in 2006 largely on the strength of their promises to “drain the swamp”, “clean house” and to run “the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history”. Thus far, we’ve not seen very much in the way of house-cleaning or swamp-draining. In fact, the swamp has gotten bigger and the house a lot messier under Democratic leadership despite a shiny new Office of Congressional Ethics. Accountability and transparency have been sacrificed on the altar of “we won”. I thought it would be interesting to look at a few news stories from just this year to see how bad it’s gotten.
Please read the whole thing and leave a little comment if you’re so inclined. I’m told good traffic and comments to my post can redound well on me the folks who run AIP do pay attention to those sorts of things.
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