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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (98314)	5/17/2007 9:29:16 AM
From: JeffA	Respond to of 173976

He was exonerated, which is found innocent

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (98314)	5/17/2007 10:41:34 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Respond to of 173976

Today's Democrats - no different than the corrupt GOP May 16, 2007 - 3:47pm. Rob Kezelis Ethics Deform: Let's get ours first. By ROB KEZELIS Seven Heroes vs. many more culprits. So much for any hope that the Democrat Party will be an improvement over the Republic Party. It was a faint hope to start with; but even faint hopes in our political quagmire are a waste of time. First, the Heroes: Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Chris Murphy, Zack Space, Baron Hill, Paul Hodes, and Betty Sutton. They pushed forward to pass some ethics rules that would (SLIGHTLY) change the illegal and immoral behavior that permeates the House of Representatives. One aspect would limit how soon a congresscritter could stop pretending that he/she represents the people, and take their money directly as a lobbyist. Another would demand that lobbyists report each and every donation, and ban the "group" bribes they currently use to avoid disclosure. I take my hat off to this group. Pity it is so small. As weak and watered down as these proposed ethics rules were, too many DEMOCRATS in office think that they are too strong. Steny "Where's Mine" Hoyer leads his merry little band of greedy, money-grubbing, lobby-ist loving, paid political warriors for K-Street. One of the arguments these scum-buckets have raised is that it is unfair to increase the time from congress to K-Street from one year to two. Another is that the "people" would not appreciate their ethics reform efforts, so why bother? WHY BOTHER? WHY, INDEED? One thing is painfully clear. We have replaced one set of corrupt, greedy, small-minded criminal pols with another. Same behavior, different label. If ever there was a time for a new political party, a clean, ethical, unbribable, moral and constitutional protecting party, now is the time. It may be too late.