Whatever happened to Ethics Reform?

Does anyone recall that "Ethics Reform" was a major Democratic talking point in the 2006 election campaign? There were days when that's all Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al could talk about, leading up to their congressional sweep.

Well I for one am a bit confused. If the Democrats are so concerned about ethical behavior, why is it that not one single Democrat expressed concern about Congressman Charlie Rangel's tax evasions? Rangel, who chairs the tax writing House Committee on Ways and Means, failed to report and pay taxes on rental income on a Dominican Republic beachfront villa he owns. He also admitted the mortgage he secured to finance the property was interest free.

Further clouding the ethical waters for Democrats is Congressman Barney Frank's "relationship" with Fannie Mae. At a time when Fannie was flooding the financial system with bad mortgages lent to applicants who could not afford to pay them, Barney Frank was having an affair with Herb Moses, a Fannie Mae executive who was directly involved in the development of the so-called "toxic" loans that are currently dissolving our financial system. In the 1990's, Moses was working to relax federal regulations on the mortgage industry while at the same time sleeping with the ranking member (now chairman) of the House Finance Committee.

Not one Democrat is concerned about that apparent conflict...

Just when Democrats' ethical behavior can't get much worse, we find out on the Drudge Report today that Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO), on handing Mitt Romney an earpiece she had used in an interview on MSNBC, told him, "I spit on this before I put it in." According to the report on Politico.com, she spoke these words to Romney with a "sweet smile" on her face. Romney is a private citizen! Is not one single Democrat embarrassed by this childish behavior by an elected U.S. Senator?

It took the Congressional GOP 12 years in the majority to sink its ethical standards to the abysmal level we see the Democratic Majority engaged in today. The Dems have been in control for less than 2 years...