Making their own rules
By Laura LaFay
Virginia lawmakers introduce thousands of bills each year and spend hours debating the finer points of how to punish students for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, whether motorcyclists should wear helmets and who should get the death penalty.
But when it comes to making and enforcing rules for themselves, the legislators are shrinking violets.
 LaFay is a freelance journalist who participated in the State Integrity Investigation, an unprecedented, data-driven analysis of each state’s laws and practices that deter corruption and promote accountability. The State Integrity Investigation is a collaboration of the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International.The Center for Public Integrity.
August 12, 2012 - 8:04 AM
Where is the demand that Eric Holder turn over documents demanded by Congress? Freedom of Information Act? President Obama cites Presidential Privilege…which, according to law, can only be used IF THE PRESIDENT WAS DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN CONVERSATIONS OR CORRESPONDENCE being requested. Obama says he was never involved in Fast and Furious, yet invokes privilege. There is a wonderful line from the musical Lil’ Abner. Any time the General ( a blow-hard politician) from Dogpatch, USA makes a pronouncement, the townsfolk shout: “What’s good for General Bullmoose, is good for the USA!” Libs, Dems, and Progs demand reform, or at least enforcement, of ethics laws and rules…but only for Conservatives and Republicans. What’s good for President Obama is good for……………
We ran a May 2 editorial stating that the administration should comply with FOIA requests on this issue.
Where was the “demand” for Vice President Dick Cheney to respond to a Congressional subpoena? It is what it is in politics. You tell me how memos that have nothing to do with the Fast and Furious actual operation are not a total witch hunt? This is all about not finding a bad guy and then creating one, just like with Clinton. Issa and the right wing, want to keep digging till they find some shred to hang a scalp on. We have seen this before. This is SO why Bush/Cheney should have been investigated and prosecuted for the Iraq War lies. No good deed goes unpunished in the TP/GOP scorched earth epoch.