Held to the Highest Standard

TAPPED carries the story of the doom befalling the potential ethics investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. (This investigation would be based on charges from Chris Bell, a Congressman redistricted out of office in Texas, thanks to DeLay's machinations.) Will it shock you to discover that Republicans have maneuvered to use the rules to prevent an investigation from even happening? Will it shock you that, in doing so, they have set a new low in the already fairly poor history of House ethics proceedings? Read it and weep.