Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, who was appointed in January to a House task force to study whether an independent ethics panel is needed, is strongly opposed to the idea, saying that such a panel could be manipulated for partisan purposes, according to the Hill.
“Should we let MoveOn.org decide who to investigate?” Tiahrt asked. He went on say that wrongdoers are being caught and sentenced. “The system is working,” he declared.
But is the system working when former Rep. Mark Foley’s sexual obsession with pages is common knowledge but goes unaddressed for years by House leaders?
The House Ethics Committee’s independence and integrity will get a new test with the unfolding furor over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, allegedly for political reasons.
One of those attorneys, John McKay, was fired after he refused to intervene in an election recount case in Washington state. He had received a call from the staff of Rep. Doc Hastings, who is the ranking Republican on the House Ethics Committee.
Calls by members of Congress to influence U.S. attorneys are considered unethical. If anyone should have known that, it was Hastings. But there’s no move in the committee to investigate him.
“This case points to everything that is wrong with the ethics process,” said Mary Boyle of the watchdog group Common Cause.
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Considering Tiahrt’s friends and association were found guilty in criminal and ethics probes it doesn’t make sense to put him on a panel. He’s as corrupt as his neo-con cronies.
Will the Eagle revoke their endorsement?
DougBoyda should be given credit for cutting the Congressional pensions of convicted felons.Care to guess if the funds that were cut hurt Democrats or Republicans the most?
Toahrt and ethics??? That’s an oxymoron if I have ever heard one…
Time for Tiahrt to MoveOn!
If the Repubs had ethics, the Bush Admin would never have been in office in the first place. They only made it by “virtue” of a Supreme biased Court.
I am glad there are Kansans who recognize Tiahrt’s lack of ethics. Now, when are you going to ditch him???
Rep. Tom Foley and pages?
Care to edit your post, Mr. Scholfield?
Tom Foley wasn’t the most ethical Speaker in our history, but he also wasn’t sexually interested in young boys.
TWO Tiahrt threads in TWO days?
Where WERE you editors before the election?
Back then, you did not seem to know who Tiahrt was!
Of COURSE Toady doesn’t want investigations. Embarrassing stuff is likely to out.
When was Foley speaker? Sure you aren’t thinking about his enabler Dennis “I See Nothing” Hastert?
toddy against ETHICS reforms?
Say it isnt so….
Funny, the repukes acted like wingnuts gone wild with lobby cash, and even fired USA’s ’cause they werent prosecuting dems at the same rate as repukes.
No matter that the REPUKES were at the bottom of more crimes. Gotta make corruption LOOK bipartisan even if it isnt.
So.. let’s review. The repukes make no attempt to tighten ethics rules, they just exploited every one to the hilt.
And NOW the WE is concerned that toddy doesnt support ethics rules?
Say it isnt so….
How’s that toddy endorsement working out for wichita?
hehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehhe
I agree it’s rather late in the game for the Eagle to finally start standing up and asking the hard questions of Tiahrt.
But that’s how the game is played, we all know it. In the small town news, the wealthy business persons get ignored for their bad behavior, but the poor nobodies get slammed in the paper.
They know where their bread is buttered.
Anyone have $90,000 cash in their freezer lately?
Or perhaps, I don’t want to take a bribe now, maybe later Ex-Marine Congressman view?
Tiahrt campaigned for terms limits, voted for term limits, signed The Contract With America which supported term limits.His personal integrity should have mandated that he not run for as 7th term.Well, he did run. So much for personal integrity.Now he thinks he should be the voice of ethical behavior in congress? Go figure!
hee hee hee heeheeeeee heheheheh!
Khan is so predictable, as are all the gop wingnuts.
“Waaaaaa mommy, waaaaaaaa. The democrats do it too… waaaaaaa”
Thanks for proving my point, that they HAVE to make all the corruption look bipartisan, no matter HOW far back they have to stretch or how few the examples.
Hell, they are even willing to fire folks in the “justice” department to make the corruption LOOK bipartisan.
Nice job khan. You dont care if toddy supports corruption as long as you think you have cover from the other side of the aisle.
So much for the party of personal responsibility. And FISCAL responsibility.
Todd and khan the troller. Two peas in a pod….
Ethics is core to Tiahrt’s values. Many of us knew him long before his success in Congress. To question his ethics is without substance. Rep Foley was a disgrace and he is now gone. U.S attorneys are political hires that can be fired for ANY reason. ANY reason. If Doc Hastings is guilty of ethics lapses, then he will be punished by the Ethics committee. The ethics committee is not a police function, they are a body to investigate ethics violations. This is a case in point where the facts are not painted correctly by the media to unfairly hurt politically a decent and ethical mans’ character. That is the real story.
“Ethics is core to Tiahrt’s values.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS FOR THE LAUGH!
Yeah, Todd is the face of ethics. I sent him a leter about the DeLay, Cunningham and Ney corruption issue and he sent me a reply complaining about corrupt DEMOCRATS, with absolutely no mention of DeLay, et al.
What was noteworthy is that I never identified myself as being a Democrat or even left leaning.
With Tiahrt, being a Democrat is an ethics violation, while being a Republican allows for unlimited behavior.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.
WSC – what did you expect. He gets his talking points from Rove, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. I knew T-fadt here; he doesn’t think for himself. It’s fun watching him squirm now that the BushBots are weakening.