Congress talking about ethics?
The House ethics committee has been debating whether or not to investigate the actions of Tom 'The Devil' Delay. This is crazy. Republicans had tried to change the rules so that this wouldn't happen. Their intention was to modify the current system so that a majority vote of the committee was required to start an investigation. The problem is that the committee is split 5:5 along party lines essentially meaning that no investigation would ever be done on any member of the House. It was definitely going to be done to protect Tommy and his cronies from investigations. More free vacations for TD. The ethics committee is a real collection of losers. Here you can follow some of the links to the reps homepages.

For example, republican Doc Hastings (rep from the conservative center of washington state - known affectionately as 'the sticks') is the committee chair. He is one of the authors of the bill that has removed the "Death Tax" because it is evidently taxing rich people twice. What it really does is help force people like Paris Hilton to share some of the wealth. Taxing a dead persons assets is a good thing. If they didn't want the money to help the common good they should have shared the wealth earlier.

Lamar Smith, from Texas (pronounced tay-has), is leading the way on the 'Family Entertainment and Copyright Act' which essentially gives anyone the right to edit and redistribute films without the director's permission. This is so stupid that it drives me nuts that this is even an issue before congress. I personally would have found Titanic offensive but I avoided that by not seeing it. These republicans are so bizarre. They seem to support the individual by taking away all their rights.

These are the types of people we are stuck with I guess. As long as the thinking americans don't get involved we really have no one to blame but ourselves. Oh, and Karl Rove.