Ancient history is just that.

To me the type of moral virtues espoused by these men isn’t even relevant to their effectiveness as leaders. I’d much rather they espouse important civic virtues like honesty, integrity, wisdom, and a sense that its possible to blend both freedom and laws for the common good. But you never hear such men talk of those things because they are too busy pushing peoples buttons to manipulate them with issues far less important than whats really going on behind closed doors.

kimrit – Yes.

Thought it was roughly mid June when the Dem caucus removed him from the ways/means committee. I think it had to go to a house vote as well, and it was 99-48 or something like that to remove him.

Now on the part about voters holding their representatives to a higher moral standard, I think that depends on where you are. Seems to me most of the time when sexual misconduct is found, the perp tends to fade away and not run again.
I think we could go all day discussing which side is more corrupt/immoral, but after a while it would really just be a draw. Both sides cover for themselves (foley anyone? condit anyone?), and that won’t change until we have wholesale changes at the top.

Bob Ney resigned 2 1/2 weeks after the guilty plea. Hardly ‘serving’, but true he didn’t resign as quickly as he should have.

Scooter was never elected to any office, and that just occurred, so any fallout is not yet known.

So, now provide the list of Democrats that fell on their swords when confronted with proof of their malfeasances.

If that’s true, why was Tom Delay reelected so many times? Why did Bob Ney serve in Congress even AFTER his guilty plea? Why were conservatives pushing for a full pardon for Scooter Libby after his felony convictions? Whatta joke!

That leads to both the need to be a hypocrite if you want to run as a Republican, but have peccadilloes (as most of us do), and the subsequent rejection by the voters and the party when caught violating those mores.

Democrats are unburdened as a whole by such limits. Heck, they can get caught with hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in a freezer or steering government contracts to their friends a relatives without fear of losing their office or committee appointments, it seems.

We need a government that will worry about the real problems that are facing middle-class America- and not concentrate on the war on Christianity, the inevitability of premarital sex among young people or the death blow that homosexual unions will deal to the institution of marriage.