The Daily Sandwich

"We have to learn the lesson that intellectual honesty is fundamental for everything we cherish." -Sir Karl Popper

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Shouldn't this come BEFORE the guilty plea?

Although it sounds like something from a Democratic stump speech, I really can't think of another way to put it: Republicans continually show nothing but contempt for the nation's government. To be fair, the Louisiana Democrat who refused to consider resignation after being caught with all that cold cash in his freezer did the same thing. But the shenanigans of Tom DeLay and Bob Ney, to name just two, show just how much incumbency trumps responsibility.

GOP anxiety ran high over the weekend, thanks to Ney. While he sprang a bouquet of revelations on them last week -- admitting to felonies, revealing his alcoholism, publicly apologizing for his misbehavior -- an announcement he'd be leaving Congress wasn't among the bunch.

And despite public efforts by GOP leaders and anonymous bitter Republicans to convince him to leave on his own, Ney made it pretty clear today he's not gonna go along.

"Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) sent two letters to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today announcing he would immediately step down from his Financial Services subcommittee chairmanship and also relinquish his chairmanship of the Franking Commission, which oversees and sets guidelines for mass mailings sent from Congressional offices," Roll Call (sub. req.) reports this afternoon.