WASHINGTON - The late Earl Long of Louisiana was correct: Politicians are not averse to ethics, he said; they’ll use anything they can get their hands on. So once more around the congressional ethics question, we go, but this time with an eye to dumping the whole mess on a third-party office of integrity. It is a bad idea that carries severe risk, but first a little history.
About 30 years ago Congress decided that it needed to take ethics somewhat more seriously. The black eye it had received in the whitewash by the Democratic majority of the Bobby Baker affair could no longer be tolerated. Only by the skin of their teeth, a manipulated investigation and the influence of his mentor, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, had Vice President and soon-to-be President Lyndon Johnson and his party survived a disaster
BostonHerald.com - Opinion & Editorial: Ethics reform risks creating a monster
Something that is sadly needed in Washington. But, how far will they go?
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