Reid It And Weep
October 18, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Consider, please, the headline, “Reid plans to amend ethics form on land sale”.
Amend ethics? Is there any place other than Washington where you can amend your ethics — and do it through a government form?
Next up: I’d like to amend my conscience. Got the paperwork?
JorgXMcKie said,
October 18, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
Well, Reid demonstrates the existence of ethics by his notable lack of same. I’m not sure of the existence of a conscience, not having one myself and not being able to prove the existence of one in anyone else.
Rodney A Stanton said,
October 18, 2006 @ 3:49 pm
Jorge -
You may not have a conscience but at least you admit the lack. Harry lacks one but tells all he has one. To me that is a significant difference.
Ron Coleman said,
October 18, 2006 @ 3:57 pm
Ok, call me a stupid, literalistic lawyer, but how does “amending an ethics form” become “amending ethics”?
Rob said,
October 18, 2006 @ 4:10 pm
“Ethics specialists told AP that Reid’s inaccurate accounting of the deal to Congress appeared to violate Senate ethics rules” Well, golly gee willikers, that can’t be good.
Ron, you’re half-correct. The form doesn’t actually amend Senator Reid’s ethics. He’ll have to do that himself.
Mister Snitch! said,
October 18, 2006 @ 4:40 pm
Ethical people don’t need ethics rules (or the remedial training that goes with their violation). Ethical people are ethical because they do the right thing, not because they follow rules.
UNethical people… well, they’re looking for ways around such rules, aren’t they?
Bob Smith said,
October 18, 2006 @ 5:09 pm
Why does Reid think amending his disclosures will save him? You can’t, for example, get yourself out of a burglary prosecution by returning what you stole and saying “oops, so sorry!”
DRJ said,
October 18, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
Bob Smith,
Apparently you can in Washington DC.
Ron Coleman said,
October 18, 2006 @ 8:33 pm
Actually, I am asking the opposite question from what everyone else here is asking. No one ever said he was amended his ethics. Just his “ethics form.”
I’m sure he’s an unethical SOB no matter what … he’s in Congress, after all. But I don’t get the spin or the joke here.
Bob Smith said,
October 20, 2006 @ 11:02 am
Apparently there are some rouge posters using my good name: I am the one & only Bob Smith. Look it up in the phone book.