How is it that the people in charge of investigating ethics issues in the Senate are the Senators themselves? These are the idiots we want running health care, I think not.
Regardless of the outcome of an Ensign probe, however, we are concerned that — as blogger Paul Blumenthal has written on the Web site of another watchdog group, the Sunlight Foundation — the Senate Ethics Committee is “a black hole where investigations go to die.”
The committee never took action in the case of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), despite abundant evidence that an oil contractor rebuilt his house and gave him other gifts never reported on his financial disclosure forms.
Editorial: Black Hole? - Roll Call
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