Ethics Committee!?

Ethics committee ready to probe Foley case By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 48 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Speaker Dennis Hastert's job is on the line as members of the House ethics committee decide how to launch a credible investigation of former Rep. Mark Foley's salacious computer messages to teenage pages. [Yahoo News]

Excuse me? The ethics committee? Is this the same ethics committee that the Republican controlled house gutted several years ago for investigating the last round of Republican indiscressions? Or is this the ethics committee that has yet to seriously deal with lobbiest access to elected representatives? Or perhaps, this is the ethics committee that, for the last twenty years really has been little more than a storage cabinet of white paint hoping the issues turned over to them would go away.

At what point will the American people become the ethics committee and replace the whole lot of them? It is about time that they were told to stop messing around and get some real work done. Ethics committee. Maybe I should send them a couple of books on ethics so they at least have a starting point.