According to the NYT‘s this morning, House Republicans are “planning” to shore up Hastert’s goal of removing Republican Joel Hefley from his chairmanship of the ethics committee, and will be introducing a package of rule changes to stymie the pursuit of such investigations in the future.
What they’re planning in Texas, according to the article, is just another example of the GOP’s abuse of the system and further evidence that instead of restoring ethics or morality to gov’t they are going out of their way to expose themselves for the hypocrites they are.
One proposal would take authority for prosecuting the campaign finance case away from the Democratic district attorney in Austin and give it to the state attorney general, a Republican. Another possible move would legalize corporate campaign contributions like those that figure into the state case.
They should all be made to visit this piece by Jacob Hornberger, and to commit the following, to memory:
“When laws are not enforced equally on everyone, people tend to lose respect for the law in general.”