Ethics Committee

CNN reports Democrats protecting their own in ethics dispute

House Democrats are blocking the ethics committee from organizing in order to protect several of their members from ethics investigations, House Speaker Dennis Hastert charged Wednesday.

"We know there are four or five cases out there dealing with top-level Democrats," Hastert told the conservative Sean Hannity radio program. "There's a reason that they don't want to go to the ethics process and as long as they can keep someone dangling out there like they have with Tom DeLay, they take great glee in that."

His comment came the same day House Democrats rejected a compromise offer from the Republican chairman of the ethics committee that would have opened an investigation into ethics charges against Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas in return for the Democrats agreeing to formally organize the committee.

As long as the Dems can get the MSM to attack Delay, they not only do not need an Ethics Committee, the don't WANT one, because they know that the things they are critizing Delay for are not illegal or in violation of house rules.