Funny how all these gophers are promising reform now, isn't it?

[BushOut06]

Isn't this kind of like the kid who gets caught doing something really bad, and promises that they won't do it again? I love the mock piety these assholes are soming out with. Gee, where were Gingrich and Barr before all this stuff started going down? They're scampering to try to save their party, nothing less and nothing more. As far as Newt goes, that's a hoot, Mr. Ethics himself now wants to reform Congress.

[Newsjock]

1. It's faux reform

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011701311.html

According to lobbyists and ethics experts, even if Hastert's proposal is enacted, members of Congress and their staffs could still travel the world on an interest group's expense and eat steak on a lobbyist's account at the priciest restaurants in Washington.

The only requirement would be that whenever a lobbyist pays the bill, he or she must also hand the lawmaker a campaign contribution. Then the transaction would be perfectly okay.

"That's a big hole if they don't address campaign finance," said Joel Jankowsky, the lobbying chief of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, one of the capital's largest lobbying outfits.

[AlCzervik]

2. actually they're trying to put reforms out before the democrats

it's window dressing only and i think many people people are already hip to it.