House GOP to gut ethics rules Tuesday. So where are the Dems?

Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns?

Yet again, another perfect opportunity for the Democratic party to step up to the plate and where the hell are they? Tomorrow, Tuesday, the House Republicans will vote to gut most of the ethics regulations covering them - regulations that they imposed on themselves ten years ago when they claimed the Dems were running an unethical Congress, and thus the GOP needed to come in and clean things up. Well, apparently they cleaned things up a little too well. Tomorrow that will change when they eviscerate the House ethics rules so that their parents and families can accept more gifts from lobbyists and so that it will be next to impossible for outside groups, or anyone else for that matter, to file an ethics complaint against a member of Congress and have it actually investigated.

So that brings us to the key question: Where the hell are the Democrats? Where is the DNC? Where is Nancy Pelosi? Where the hell is anyone who claims to be a leader of this party? They have been handed this issue, wrapped like a little Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa gift, just waiting to exploited. It's their first frigging vote, people - imagine the kind of damage you could do the freshman GOP class by exposing the fact that their first vote in Congress was to WEAKEN the ethics rules.

But no. Nothing big is being planned by the Dems, as far as I can tell. Sure, they plan on offering some amendment or something, I have no idea what. But are they holding big press conferences, rallies, launching a major public relations offensive against the GOP? No. Maybe like President Bush they're still on vacation.

It's time we sent the entire party leadership on a vacation. Permanently.

I was thinking of having folks call their members of Congress, but it's too late for that. The only hope is for people to call House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and ask her and her staff what happened? Why they're not fighting back like Newt Gingrich and Tom Delay himself would have fought back? Where are they?

Please call Nancy Pelosi's office and ask them what the hell they're doing about this, and why she and the rest of the Democratic leadership appear to still be on vacation while the rest of the country goes to hell.

Nancy Pelosi in DC 202-225-4965, and San Francisco 415-556-4862. Forget emailing them, it's too late for that. Call the office and ask them what the hell is going on. Anger is the only thing that motivates these people, and it's time we took back our party. It can be down. But only if you speak up, loudly and repeatedly.