{"id":1735,"date":"2006-01-17T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2006-01-17T07:18:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T14:18:30","slug":"1735","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/17\/1735\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/news\/local\/story\/5461583p-4928548c.html\">\u201cAs far as I am concerned, there is no House Ethics Committee,\u201d said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracks government ethics. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been operational in a year. That\u2019s the way Republicans and Democrats want it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey might as well disband and stop pretending to have an ethics committee,\u201d said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. \u201cThey are a disgrace. Hastings should be embarrassed. Democrats have done a bad job. No one is interested in ethics enforcement.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.printthis.clickability.com\/pt\/cpt?action=cpt&amp;title=Bush+Has+Crossed+the+Rubicon+by+Paul+Craig+Roberts&amp;expire=&amp;urlID=16876661&amp;fb=Y&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2Froberts%2Froberts139.html&amp;partnerID=10\">Vetoing Laws you just signed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchingamerica.com\/zaman000002.shtml\">Dubya is no Washington<\/a>.  No duh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/20313.html\">Why the History Professor pretended to be a neo-nazi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/15\/magazine\/15japanese.html?ei=5090&amp;en=7a1fdac3eb790b32&amp;ex=1294981200&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Isn&#8217;t this just a somewhat more extreme version of what happens to most American teenagers at some point in their adolescence?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs far as I am concerned, there is no House Ethics Committee,\u201d said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracks government ethics. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been operational in a year. That\u2019s the way Republicans and Democrats want it.\u201d \u201cThey might as well disband and stop pretending to have an ethics committee,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}