Via Brothers Judd blog, it seems that Democrats can't keep another campaign promise: revising House ethics rules.
Democratic-led efforts to overhaul the House's oft-criticized ethics enforcement system have stumbled over a familiar obstacle: lawmakers afraid of outside scrutiny.
The promise to end the "culture of corruption" they said developed in Washington under Republican rule helped propel Democrats into the majority in November elections. But after a promising start, lawmakers appear to be backing off a proposal for an independent entity to investigate ethics charges.
An outside monitor would be a first for the House. But after weeks of meetings, a House task force studying the issue says the group has not begun discussing a plan and will probably miss its May 1 reporting deadline.
Democrats are too busy shoveling pork into their latest cut-and-run projects to do any of the things they promised to do.
Don't expect to read about this on the liberal blogs. They're too busy trying to find a scandal with which to hang the Bush administration to actually cover those broken promises.
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