The defunct house ethics committee postpones Delay ethics probe.

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Not only is the house going to convene late in order to save the House Leader job for Delay, now they are to postpone his ethics probe also. I wonder what it would be like for a citizen to get this kind of attention out of the Republican lead house. Shame on all, primarily Hastert.
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By Alexander Bolton
http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/121405/news1.html

The House ethics committee may not launch an immediate investigation into the activities of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) once it becomes fully operational after New Year’s, according to its chairman Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.).

In April, Hastings pledged to launch an immediate probe of DeLay if Democrats agreed to cooperate with him and allow him to organize the Standards of Official Conduct Committee, as it is officially known.

The panel had been put in limbo by a partisan dispute over rules changes.

Hastings said in a recent interview with The Hill that his offer to investigate DeLay earlier this year was “extraordinary.” He said the committee would now operate on regular order. When asked whether his offer was outside regular order, he responded, “Yeah. That was extraordinary. Let’s put it that way.”

Hastings’s original offer was that he and at least three Republican colleagues on the committee would vote at the earliest opportunity to empanel an investigative subcommittee headed by Rep. Melissa Hart (R-Pa.) to “review allegations concerning travel and other actions by Mr. DeLay.”

Now, however, his position is that, “We’re going to start all over.”

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1. Well, just because he's been criminally indicted

Doesn't mean DeLay has broken any ethical rules. At least not in a House run by Tom DeLay, who never met a rule that he thought applied to him.

I know there are Democrats making noise about this. I wonder why they can get a hearing in our national media, which seem to have all kinds of time to broadcast another meaningless speech by Chimpy before another canned audience, or to put on some religiously insane person blathering on about affronts to Christmas?

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2. Don't wanna interfere with an investigation...errr....trial, ya know