DeLay Purges House Ethics Committee

[housewolf]

From the Bull Moose blog:
Wednesday Afternoon Massacre

Employing the cloak of the State of the Union Address, the House Republicans instituted a purge yesterday on the House Ethics Committee to protect their Chief Bug Man.

The Washington Post reports,
"Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), who clashed with DeLay so often that they barely spoke and was considered wayward by other leaders, was replaced yesterday with Rep. Richard Hastings (R-Wash.). Hastings has carried out other sensitive leadership assignments and is known as a favorite of Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who made the decision."

The very same chamber where the President eloquently hailed the virtues of freedom was the site where Republicans were replacing the rule of law with the rule of the Bugman! And those very brave Republicans had the audacity to display their ink stained fingers as if they had risked all to defend the virtues of democracy!

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In addition to the Hefley purge, the democracy-loving Delayicans put two cronies of their Majority Leader on the Ethics Committee,

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http://www.bullmooseblog.com/2005/02/wednesday-afternoon-massacre.html

[Pepperbelly]

1. I posted the news yesterday from the Post ...

and few people were interested. I think it's an important story. Good luck.

[tsuki]

2. Just because you don't post, doesn't mean you haven't read and

filed the information. I mean what can you post? But I filed the story in my memory bank to be used when DeLay faces the Ethics Committee again, again, again.