Power corrupts
I wish this were a joke:
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert is leaning toward removing the House ethics committee chairman, who admonished House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this fall and has said he will treat DeLay like any other member, several Republican aides said yesterday.
Although Hastert (Ill.) has not made a decision, the expectation among leadership aides is that the chairman, Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.), long at odds with party leaders because of his independence, will be replaced when Congress convenes next week.
But it's not funny. It would be funny if it were in an Orwell novel, but it's not. Ya know what's even less funny? Who his replacement will be:
The aides said a likely replacement is Rep. Lamar S. Smith, one of DeLay's fellow Texans, who held the job from 1999 to 2001. Smith wrote a check this year to DeLay's defense fund. An aide said Smith was favored for his knowledge of committee procedure.
No shame. This is your modern republican party, folks.
-- Michael
They have to move quickly.
Rep. Jim McDermott of WA is up before the committee for his role in that little 'overheard through the cell phone' bit a while back.
As a official liberal pain in the ass to the GOoPers, getting McDermott before a Lamar committee is a huge prize and would result in burning him at the stake, at least.
Posted by: David Aquarius | December 29, 2004 at 07:44 PM
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