Ethics rules need tough enforcement

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., cuts to a core problem with much of Congress’ newfound zeal to clean up campaign finance and lobbying limits: “We’ve got a Federal Elections Commission that is corrupt, and we’ve got (congressional) ethics committees that aren’t working,” McCain said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” He noted that the FEC sought to poke loopholes into the McCain-Feingold reform law and otherwise has balked at holding violators accountable. Any new rules and regulations aimed at cleaning up Congress will be worthless with the existing enforcers.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

21 Comments

  1. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    “Evil is always unspectacular, and always human, sleeps in our bed, and eats at out table.”

    “Measure not the work till the day is out and the labor done.”

  2. TRACY
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 9:12 am | Permalink

    AIN’T NOBODY BUT US CHICKENS IN HERE!!!!

  3. Joe Williams
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 9:22 am | Permalink

    We also need to close the loophole for Indian Nations to contribute to campaigns. Abramoff exploitate that loophole big time.

  4. Jed
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 10:01 am | Permalink

    Congress isn’t going to clean house until the voters make them! Next time you go to vote, find out who your congressman’s in bed with, and not be concerned about how much (of your own)pork has been tossed into your district. Your vote is worth more than that!

  5. Joe Blow
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 12:36 pm | Permalink

    Does the Eagle send flowers to McCain after these kisses?

  6. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 1:28 pm | Permalink

    Maybe not, but the rest of the nation sure does think about it.

  7. damoon
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

    McCain for president!!!

  8. Hank
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 1:38 pm | Permalink

    If we had tougth enforcement of ethics and campaign laws, John-the-war-hero-torure-doesn’t-work-unless-its-used-on-me-McCain would still be in jail with the rest of the Keating Five.

    Hnak

  9. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

    It’s pretty bad when you can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t make a better president.

  10. Ian Santiago
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    McCain is a traitor and a fool who needs to be beaten with a baseball bat.

    V.L.R.B!!

  11. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    Well, maybe one.

  12. damoon
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 2:32 pm | Permalink

    I think both Hank and Ian need to be beat over the head with a ball bat until they come to their senses.

  13. damoon
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    Regarding the “Keating Five”, the special council concluded that of the five, McCain and Glenn were not involved in the scheme. The Democrates wanted McCain to be a target because he was the only Republican in the group and they wanted to avoid the impression that the scandel was only a Democratic problem.Of the “keating Five” only Cranston was censured.Being accused of something doesn’t mean you’re guilty, Hank.

  14. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

    There’s something I’d say here, but I just found out I’m supposed to meet with McCain in three weeks.I’ve begun practicing for the event by talking to the walls.The walls are probably better listeners.

  15. Ben Huie
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 4:54 pm | Permalink

    We could use some cleaning up here in Kansas too with the information about all our “anti-gambling” legislators being funded by out-of-town gambling interests.

  16. XXX
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Move along folks, nothing to see here. We’re going to get a lot of pious pissing and moaning, and maybe some more toothless laws. But if you think anything is going to change, I have a bridge I KNOW you’ll be interested in. There’s too much money involved, and everybody has a price. Everybody.

  17. J M Walker
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

    Ian Idiot,”McCain is a traitor and a fool who needs to be beaten with a baseball bat.”

    McCain was beaten with a baseball bat you sub-human freak. He’s more of a man than your tender little boy tush could ever hope to be. Walk to the florida coast, continue out into the ocean for about a mile, sit down on the ocean bottom, and wait for something good to happen, like a great white shark snarfing your empty head.

  18. DUBYA
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

    MCCAIN CAPTURED HIMSELF TO MAKE THE PAPERS SO HE COULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT. MY SWIFT BOAT BUDDIES WILL EXPOSE HIM!!!!!

  19. damoon
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Mr C. When you see McCain, tell him I want him to run for prez!!!

  20. mrcontroversy
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

    Unless I can get him to see things my way, I don’t.This isn’t selfish…if McCain could just see past his campaign contributions, he could help create 700-1200 new jobs in Arizona…and another 100-350 jobs here in Wichita.

  21. Jed
    Posted January 20, 2006 at 3:12 am | Permalink

    In the reconstruction south, state and county politicians were often civil war veterans who had lost an arm or leg in the war, the theory being that a one armed man could only dip one hand in the till, and a one legged man couldn’t run fast enough to get away with government funds. Now those voters had a realistic view of politicians!Ethics in government are always professed but seldom practiced. Enforcement is what’s needed, and not by the politicians.