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[Gutek]

Update: Trump rebuking house republicans efforts, saying there are things of higher priority than weakening ethics oversight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/03/u...prod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share


I can't believe they're going with the good cop/bad cop routine. It might actually work.



Original Post

House Republicans, defying their top leaders, voted Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.

The move to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics was not public until late Monday, when Representative Robert Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced that the House Republican Conference had approved the change with no advance public notice or debate.

In its place, a new Office of Congressional Complaint Review would be set up within the House Ethics Committee, which before the creation of the Office of Congressional Ethics had been accused of ignoring credible allegations of wrongdoing by lawmakers.]

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Of course, they claim it will strengthen ethics oversight.

Happy new year!

 

[Randolph Freelander]

"Evidently, ethics are the first casualty of the new Republican Congress." -Nancy Pelosi

 

[theignoramus]

#MAGA

 

[adj_noun]

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

The GOP is rotten the core.

 

[spiderman123]

he move by Republicans would take away both power and independence from an investigative body, and give lawmakers more control over internal inquiries.

Well this can only end well.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

(NOT!)

 

[smokeandmirrors]

classic dirty ass republicans

 

[TestOfTide]

So do any of the Trump fans who liked "drain the swamp" want to try and explain why they voted to enable this?

 

[DragonSworne]

Good move. I see lots of coal and manufacting jobs coming back to America with this move.

 

[FyreWulff]

- moving to ban any livestreaming from the floor
- removing ethics oversight

secret congress!

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

(NOT!)

You should run for President.

 

[Zantetsuken]

This is just the beginning.

 

[Technosteve]

both sides are the same guys!

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Republicans continue to be horrible bastards and they'll continue getting rewarded for it. Sigh.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

we're going to have a hell of a time rebuilding

 

[Link]

But both parties are the same, guys!

 

[DragonSworne]

Counting the days when the first group of Democrats are thrown out of congress because of "ethic violations".

 

[Ac30]

- moving to ban any livestreaming from the floor
- removing ethics oversight

secret congress!

Straight up destroying democracy from day -1. Welp, it was nice while it lasted.

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

Mr. Goodlatte defended the action in a statement issued Monday evening, saying it would strengthen ethics oversight in the House while also giving lawmakers better protections against what some members have called overzealous efforts by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Gotta protect the hardworking and honest lawmakers from the overzealous OCE.

 

[WedgeX]

The Republic had a good run.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

the amount of deregulation, corruption and lack of accountability we're gonna be seeing these next few years is really gonna be tremendous.

 

[Kai Dracon]

Clearly the best way to drain the swamp is by getting rid of the swamp cops in charge of draining the swamp.

 

[makingmusic476]

The article doesn't make it very clear what's being changed.

Does the Office of Congressional Complaint Review get to decide which complaints are passed on to the Office of Congressional Ethics? Is that where legislators would be exerting more control?

 

[RoboPlato]

I fucking hate the current Republican party. Cowardly and corrupt to the core and don't even try to hide it.

 

[Rayis]

Whoever doesn't think the Republican party is evil is blind

 

[KingBroly]

There was an Ethics Office?


Man, they've done a shit job.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Clearly the best way to drain the swamp is by getting rid of the swamp cops in charge of draining the swamp.

Apparently, the best way to drain the swamp is to let it boil over the top, killing/maiming anything (e.g., the general public and dissidents) that happens to be in its way while "draining".

 

[royalan]

I fucking hate the current Republican party. Cowardly and corrupt to the core and don't even try to hide it.

If by "current" you mean of the last 30-40 years...yeah!

 

[Gutek]

There was an Ethics Office?


Man, they've done a shit job.

Image how great it'll be without them.

 

[Voyr]

Sounds about Reich

 

[ruxtpin]

I fucking hate the current Republican party. Cowardly and corrupt to the core and don't even try to hide it.

Terrible thinking on my part, but part of me wishes they could be dealt some harsh "justice" ... something like Scarecrow judgements in the TDKR, just walk them out on a frozen lake. With Trump in office things are only get to worse.

 

[Desi]

This news came up on my phone and i just rolled my eyes. Absolutely wild.

 

[Link]

the amount of deregulation, corruption and lack of accountability we're gonna be seeing these next few years is really gonna be tremendous.

Don't forget what is guaranteed to be the least transparent administration of all time.

 

[nubbe]

The first thing a party of evil would do

 

[TheCochese]

It's not illegal if Republicans do it.

 

[Iksenpets]

Drain that swampy, swampy ethics office.

 

[Wag]

So do any of the Trump fans who liked "drain the swamp" want to try and explain why they voted to enable this?

He knows how to run a business.

 

[XenodudeX]

Words cannot describe how much I hate this party.

 

[EloquentM]

Comic book villains yall.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

So do any of the Trump fans who liked "drain the swamp" want to try and explain why they voted to enable this?

They don't enter the threads with bad news.

 

[rjinaz]

So do any of the Trump fans who liked "drain the swamp" want to try and explain why they voted to enable this?

All they know is that the country is going to get better now!

Some of them are probably right, it will get better, for them. The fact that it comes at the expense of others that are already at a disadvantage isn't their problem. Life is Darwin bitches.

 

[Gutek]

So do any of the Trump fans who liked "drain the swamp" want to try and explain why they voted to enable this?

Ethics offices are part of the swamp to them.

 

[ISOM]

NYTimes is obviously the librul media trying to smear the goldy work Republicans will be doing.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Wrong thread.

 

[Aselith]

Building that swamp one bog at a time.

 

[olag]

Mmmmmhhhh... look at all dat sweet sweet swamp water

 

[TestOfTide]

They don't enter the threads with bad news.

Oh shit, you're right I should just bring this thread TO THEM in some other thread where they defend Trump.

 

[Biggest-Geek-Ever]

Mr. Goodlatte defended the action in a statement issued Monday evening, saying it would strengthen ethics oversight in the House while also giving lawmakers better protections against what some members have called overzealous efforts by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Not even bothering to make logical sense anymore