Reply #2: Diary from Jim McDermott on Daily Kos on the history of the Ethics [View All]

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Committee.

"The Fall of the House of Ethics
by Jim McDermott


Thu Apr 14th, 2005 at 21:05:39 PDT

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
— George Santayana
The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct -- a.k.a. "Ethics" -- is embarked on a course that has been trod before.

Gather 'round the virtual bonfire, and I'll share a true tale of incestuous dealings, strange scratchings and foul odors emanating from behind stone walls, and things buried that refuse to die. I was there, I saw this with my own eyes, I have the scars to show for it, and the encounter haunts me to this very day.

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