Last time Republicans had control in D.C., (2005), first move they made was to weaken ethics rules

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Last time the GOP had unified control of Washington their first move was to ... weaken congressional ethics rules http://mobile.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/politics/after-retreat-gop-changes-house-ethics-rule.html?_r=0&referer= …



Charles M. Blow ?@CharlesMBlow 29m29 minutes ago
These folks are allergic to ethical oversight… #GOP

[Bucky]

1. Ironically, 2005 and 2017 are both The Year of the Cock

as in "Cock-a-Doodle-Do... time to wake up!"

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Republicans dont do government to help people or the government.

They do government to help themselves.

Always.

[malaise]

7. That simple n/t

[florida08]

3. U bet

The Kleptocracy will obliterate any form of protection

[global1]

4. But We Dems Didn't Remind The Voters Of 2016 That The Repugs Did That Back Then And....

this is what would happen again if we let them win. We didn't run our campaign against the Repugs - we ran it against Trump the personality and let the Repugs in general off the hook. As such - we got what we deserved and are now stuck with at least 4 years of the Repugs upending any progress we made under Obama. Unless we - over the next 4 years - point out in detail how the Repugs are destroying America and begin to campaign against them from the start of this administration - they will get away with the same crap in 2018 & 2020.

We need to keep telling the 'deplorables' how they keep shooting themselves in the feet by supporting the lies and deceptions of the Repugs.

[bigtree]

5. I remember, quite clearly, a great deal of campaigning against the 'establishment' in D.C.

...the Democratic establishment.

[toddwv]

6. Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/05/politics/after-retreat-gop-changes-house-ethics-rule