Republicans seek complaint against minority leader

[rodeodance]

and so it begins--payback-perpetual war in Congress!!

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121504/ethics.html


Monday January 10, 2005


Republicans seek complaint against minority leader

By Alexander Bolton

A group of House Republican lawmakers, stewing over a Democratic ethics complaint filed against Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), is pressing for the GOP to file a reciprocal complaint against Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for violating campaign-finance law.

That would shatter what’s left of the ethics truce party leaders forged in the late ’90s and could lead Republicans and Democrats to remilitarize the ethics battlefield with tit-for-tat complaints.

Some Republican lawmakers are exhorting their colleagues to back away from such a war.

House Republican leaders, less choleric than the rank-and-file members who want to target Pelosi, are discussing reforming the procedures of the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, as the ethics panel is formally known, to tighten confidentiality of ethics proceedings and give accused lawmakers more opportunity to defend themselves.....

[Richardo]

1. Wait a sec: GOP leaders are *less* choleric??

DeLay and Hastert are the calm, rational ones? Christ we're in bigger trouble than I thought.

Next stop: South Korean-style fist fights on the House floor.

[Nimrod]

2. Let's just hope they televise it

Hell, it would be as good a decision making process as we have now, and at least it would be entertaining.

Hmm... maybe that explains the push for Ahhnuld.

[DIKB]

3. Let's bring back the good old days.

When government officials kicked asses w/ canes, and settled duels outside with pistols.