But don’t take my word for it, just look at all the Democrats have accomplished.

Ethics Deadline Passes With No Action

Four months into the new Congress, the House has yet to pass ethics reform legislation. In fact, House Democrats have not yet even settled on the ethics package they will propose.

Ethics reform has been discussed and debated ad nauseam, and there’s nothing new under the sun, Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Boehner agreed in December to create a task force to recommend a bipartisan package. That task force was originally expected to report back by March. When Pelosi actually announced the formal creation of the task force in January, May 1 was designated as the deadline for a recommendation. But that deadline passes today without any action. The Hill recently reported on the task force’s first hearing, and the question of whether Democrats will support the creation of an outside ethics review process.

Meanwhile, it’s looking like old Diane Feinstein’s direction of government money to her husband’s firms may have reached a sum total of $1 billion:

California Sen.  Dianne Feinstein (D) chairs the Senate Rules Committee, but she’s also a Cardinal. She is currently chairwoman of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee, but until last year was for six years the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband.

If the inferences finally coming out about what she did while on Milcon prove true, she may be on the way to morphing from a respected senior Democrat into another poster child for congressional corruption.  The problems stem from her subcommittee activities from 2001 to late 2005, when she quit. During that period the public record suggests she knowingly took part in decisions that eventually put millions of dollars into her husband’s pocket — the classic conflict of interest that exploited her position and power to channel money to her husband’s companies.

I’m sure this’ll get some in-depth investigation from the Associated Press, Reuters, CBS, NBC and CNN any day now.

What’s that? They’re big story is still the Democrats griping about the perfectly legal manner in which the Bush administration dismissed some US attorneys?

Oh.  Well maybe after that then.