They'll be privatizing that function to FOX news.

I, for one, welcome our new criminal overlords.

-Z

Now that the American electorate have voted out the incumbants for all the wrong reasons, do you think these unassuming voters will be paying attention to the actual people they decided to put into office?

What smucks! -Kevo

But, but, we Repbulicans are sooooo ethical, and we'll be even moooooooore sooooooooooooo ethical, that we won't need the OCE!
Well, maybe we'll replace it with an ODE - Office of Democratic Ethics.
Yeah, yeah! That's the ticket!!!

But, why should the RepuGs have that office, when, there are so few African-Americans in their party and in Congress? Only African-American Congress people are ethically challenged, eh?

This is only a continuation of Republicans philosophy/strategy of the past four decades. All this "too-big" government is only a smoke screen to eliminate any law enforcement abilities against the corporate interests. Sorta like the Mafia winning political power and eliminating the police department budget. Look what's been done to the IRS. No, that independent-we-can-police-ourselves attitude is only good for the crooks by eliminating the cops.

And poor Dukie is crying buckets about his time in prison: he never should have pleaded guilty, it's all his lawyers' fault, life in prison sucks, had he known how tough prison is he never would have voted all those times for more stringent sentences for drug dealers (and Congressmen). No, no, ethics panels are really unnecessary - even if your congressperson keeps "price lists" of his services.

But the effort, if it proceeds, should send quite a message to voters about GOP priorities

Unfortunately this is one of 'process' stories that the MSN largely ignores and public little educated about. Much like all the Senate rules that have allowed Republicans to gum up the works while the public just sees Democrats not getting anything done despite having an 'overwhelming' majority.

Oops. The story that tells the latest Cunningham story

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/21/duke-cunningham-blames-lawyers-guilty-plea-2005/

Classic tribal bullroar.

Whatever one thinks of this (slightly peculiar) office, it has only existed since 2008. If it ceased to exist tomorrow, the Ethics Committee would go back to taking cases in the same way it always had done before that.

Last August, by the way, a lot of Dems were trashing this office because it had recommended too many probes against blacks in the House. Now that the GOP may end it, we start reading overstated bullroar like this.

In August and again today: This is how modern liberals get dumbed way down by our "intellectual leaders."

Shorter GOP: "We don't need no stinkin' ethics!"

I'm am anxious to see how this crucial show of leadership puts people back to work, improves our economy, and lowers our deficit.

[ ... sigh ... ]

If you recall, and I remember correctly, the members of the Congressional Ethics committee that were republican and went after DeLay, etc., lost their elections after that. At least one did because he got nothing in support from repubs when he ran. I even think there was a remark made by one repub (Hassert?) to a member of the committee that "you just don't do that to other repubs" or something similar.
It's a shame they lose good repubs like that to replace them with.....well, you fill in the blanks. I can't do it without cursing.

Tell Congress and all public officials commiting perjury/fraud to go home and tell the people to remember:UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL!

Isn't there SOME way we can hold these Republican'ts in contempt of Congress, since they apparently don't want to be there since they don't want to WORK? Or - can we Americans petition to have their paychecks "held hostage" until they stop doing the same to getting anything done for us?