Ethicalness

"Ethical" is a relative term.

House Majority Leader John Boehner rents a basement apartment from a lobbyist whose clients had an interest in legislation overseen or sponsored by Boehner, according to lobbying records.

Boehner, R-Ohio, pays $1,600 a month rent for the apartment owned by lobbyist John Milne and his wife, Debra Anderson, Boehner spokesman Don Seymour Jr. said.

"It is conceivable that John Milne may have lobbied Boehner on a few occasions over the years, but we are not aware of any specific instances of it, and we are certain no lobbying has taken place during the time in which John Boehner has been renting the property," Seymour said.

Hey, when your party is populated by so many ethically challenged politicians and looking to replace a House majority leader whose been brought up on charges, you just try to find the least ethically challenged. And the guy they found isn't just in a lobbyist's pocket, he's in a lobbyist's apartment.

That says a little something about the Congressmen who didn't get selected to replace Tom DeLay, huh?

There's no way that the GOP's congressional leadership didn't know about this, so I have to think that they assumed nobody would find out. Either that or they figured a press corpse that ignores reports that George Bush told Tony Blair in January 2003 that he intended to invade Iraq no matter what wouldn't make a fuss about this.

And who can blame them?