“As far as I am concerned, there is no House Ethics Committee,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracks government ethics. “It hasn’t been operational in a year. That’s the way Republicans and Democrats want it.”

“They might as well disband and stop pretending to have an ethics committee,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. “They are a disgrace. Hastings should be embarrassed. Democrats have done a bad job. No one is interested in ethics enforcement.”

Vetoing Laws you just signed.

Dubya is no Washington. No duh.

Why the History Professor pretended to be a neo-nazi.

Isn’t this just a somewhat more extreme version of what happens to most American teenagers at some point in their adolescence?

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