Fuss Over Ethics and Officeholders
When are we going to demand that government officials stop talking doublespeak to us?
The latest verbal atrocity is Bush’s ethics proposal to manipulate the law in order to protect the executive branch from being investigated independently. He is telling us that it is more ethical for the wrongdoers to be investigated by a friend than by a completely independent prosecutor.
Please! What he is really saying, folks, is that there is something to hide and that he had better hurry up and get the cover-up machinery going.
We cannot allow public officials, who get paid from our tax-collected dollars, to manipulate the laws in favor of wrongdoing officeholders.
If ever there was a time for us to stand up and scream, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,” it is now.
ROSEMARY QUESADA-WEINER
Temple City
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