{"id":31981,"date":"2012-12-31T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/im-shocked-shocked-to-discover-congress-doesnt-want-its-ethics-inves.html"},"modified":"2012-12-31T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:34:09","slug":"im-shocked-shocked-to-discover-congress-doesnt-want-its-ethics-inves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/im-shocked-shocked-to-discover-congress-doesnt-want-its-ethics-inves.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to discover Congress doesn&#39;t want its ethics inves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to discover Congress doesn&#39;t want its ethics investigated<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And I&#39;m absolutely <i>certain<\/i> that if this office is closed down, it will be solely to save money and reduce bureaucracy, right? \u00a0Right? \u00a0(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112557653998844629535\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112557653998844629535\">Wendy Cockcroft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108882630837048975033'>Glenard Munson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hmmmm&#8230;.publicly, both parties say they like it, while privately, they all want to see it just go away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/dam\/assets\/121219013942-office-of-congressional-ethics-story-top.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/29\/politics\/congressional-watchdog-group-threatened\/index.html'>Congressional ethics investigators could soon be silenced<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIts job is to flag possible conflicts of interest and even the legality of some lawmakers&#8217; actions. Now, the Office of Congressional Ethics could disappear.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/i9HQ1enaabK' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to discover Congress doesn&#39;t want its ethics investigated And I&#39;m absolutely certain that if this office is closed down, it will be solely to save money and reduce bureaucracy, right? \u00a0Right? \u00a0(h\/t +Wendy Cockcroft) Reshared post from +Glenard Munson Hmmmm&#8230;.publicly, both parties say they like it, while privately, they all want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/im-shocked-shocked-to-discover-congress-doesnt-want-its-ethics-inves.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to discover Congress doesn&#39;t want its ethics inves&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30298,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/publisher-shocked-shocked-to-discover-price-competition.html","url_meta":{"origin":31981,"position":0},"title":"Publisher shocked, SHOCKED, to discover price competition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Sep-12 12:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How could any market possibly survive where sellers are not only allowed but want to sell the same product at different prices? 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