Hastert, you we pointed to yesterday trying to shut down your government for two weeks to help his buddy Tom DeLay, is again pushing the Ethics training.
In a sign that Republican leaders are increasingly anxious about the image of the House after bribery convictions, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert raised the prospect on Wednesday of new ethics training for lawmakers.
House members and aides said Mr. Hastert broached the subject in a closed-door session with House Republicans while they discussed former Representative Randy Cunningham, the California Republican who pleaded guilty last week in an extensive corruption case that has stunned colleagues.
"The speaker wants members on both sides of the aisle to understand the nuances of House rules," Ron Bonjean, a spokesman for Mr. Hastert, said about the plan.
Yeah, these repugnuts should be scared for their seats. The scandal score-card is pretty loaded. Of course, it helped the repugnuts hand, when they forced through procedual changes to help themselves, which really isn't very ethical at all, is it?
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