{"id":2100,"date":"2010-07-31T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2010-07-31T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:46:33","slug":"the_most_ethical_congress_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"The Most Ethical Congress Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 16, 2006, Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi said, “This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.”   I am not going to speculate as to whether she meant those words when she said them, but that is not the Congress that has been created since the Democrats took over.  <\/font><\/p>\n

The Friday night news dump was a tradition in the Clinton White House.  It also seems to be a staple of the Obama Administration.  Mark Hemingway at the Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article Friday about the Obama Administration news dump.  Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has chosen to go through an ethics trail rather than accept the charges made against her by the eithics subcommittee.  This comes in the wake of the charges against Charlie Rangel, who initially said that he wanted to go through a trial in order to clear himself.  Meanwhile, many Democrats are calling for Representative Rangel’s resignation because they don’t want to deal with an ethics trial during an election year.  It will be interesting to see if the same Democrats ask Representative Waters to resign.<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s Washington Examiner<\/a> reported on the charges against Maxine Waters.  She is under investigation because of a possible conflict of interest in a case regarding a bank seeking federal aid.  Her husband owned stock in the bank and had served on its board.  According to Friday’s article:<\/font><\/p>\n

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“Ms. Walters has publicly boosted OneUnited’s executives and criticized its government regulators during congressional hearings.  Last fall, she helped secure the bank a meeting with Treasure officials.”<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The bank received a federal bailout despite serious charges of misconduct by the bank executives.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s time we held our elected leaders to the same standards we face as citizens.  There is a basic lack of honesty among some of our Congressmen.  Please vote carefully this November so that we can attempt to elect people who will listen to the citizens they are supposed to represent and will behave with basic integrity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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