When the heavy lifting is over

7/22/2010: “Now that the heavy lifting is over, we can go out and make our case,”, Joe Biden.  The legislative season is over.  The big stuff is all done.  No more contentious votes for a fwe months.  Nancy Pelosi even went so far as to completely skip the funding process because of the increbible issue that this is an election year.  Congress is now expedient.

7/29/2010:  Ethics charges stemming back to 2007 are filed against Charlie Rangel.  Obama refers to him in the past tense.

8/2/2010: Maxine Waters faces ethics charges regarding her making sure her husband’s bank received special considerations by investigators.  Obama hasn’t referred to her in the past tense yet.

Nancy Pelosi, vowing to keep on keeping on cleansing the Democrat culture of corruption, added these strong words:

“It is independent. It is confidential, classified, secret, whatever,” Pelosi said on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday. “We don’t know what it is, but we do respect the work that the members of the committee do.”

So, you’ve obviously got Obama more than happy to toss Rangel under the bus now that he doesn’t need his votes.  He’s butted heads with Waters in the past, so I’m sure she’s on her own as well.  However, you’ve got Pelosi more than happy to look the other way and cover for them.  The Ethics Committee has always been almost completely toothless.  Sure, they can make a Congressman look bad, but unless that Congress is willing to take partisan action, the Ethics committee is useless.  And, I just don’t think these people:
zoe lofgren A B Chandler G K Butterfield Kathy Castor Peter Welch Jo Bonner Michael McCaul Mike Conaway Charles W Dent Gregg Harper
Are willing to do anything about these people:
Charlie Rangel 

Maxine Waters 

Just call it a hunch.

Obama, Reid, and Pelosi just don’t want another November issue.  They’ll be found “guilty” by this Committee who will recommend next to nothing ( reprimand ), and if they don’t resign of their own free will, will disappear back in to the halls of Congress where they will be protected dutifully by Nancy Pelosi and most media.  And given the first possible chance, their voters will re-elect them.

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