Sunday, June 17, 2007

The House ethics task force must be consciencious

The Campaign Legal Center's blog has an excellent analysis of our current House ethics task force mission. The force is to recommend any changes to the U.S. House ethics enforcement process, in light of last election season's public outcry against Congress' "culture of corruption."

The point Ms. McGehee makes is that our elected officials must look deep within themselves and find substantive ethics improvements. Ethics is not a band-aid to be slapped on a serious condition. It is a state of consciousness, a realization that professional conduct is a matter of right and wrong.

I went to college at Texas Christian University, and it has bode me well in reflecting on living in this gray-filled world. Yes, there are consequences to human behavior, and that is especially true for our elected representatives in Washington.

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