Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Congress of Contradictions?

Friends,
I see no contradictions... just plain facts...

From The Politico...

Doolittle was forced by party leaders to give up his coveted seat on the House Appropriations Committee. But he was replaced by another California Republican, Rep. Ken Calvert, who has an ethics controversy of his own, because of questions raised by the Los Angeles Times about whether he used the appropriations process to increase the value of property he owned.
Some conservatives were offended by what they considered the failure of Republicans to live up to their house-cleaning rhetoric. A post on Redstate.org said that to force change, “we must scalp one member. That member’s name is Ken Calvert.”
GOP leadership aides said the reason they tapped Calvert was to keep peace within the powerful California delegation, which insisted it not lose influence on the appropriations panel.

Bring in a crook to keep the peace... where have we heard that before?

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