Senators Cleared of Ethics Charges by.....

... a Senate Ethics Committee. News reports have come out that Senators Dodd and Conrad have been cleared of any ethics violations by a Senate Ethics committee. Dodd and Conrad both received "sweetheart" loans from Countrywide Mortgage, loans that were "expedited" and "available to friends" of Countrywide's CEO, Angelo Mozilo. The Senate Ethics committee stated that since the loans would have been available to any "friend" of Mozilo; and that since the rates were not excessively low, that there were no ethics violations.

Dodd and Conrad were both rebuked though, basically saying that they should have exercised more common sense in avoiding the perception of ethics violations.

So, to paraphrase.... an ethics complaint was brought up and a panel of their peers (co-workers) found them innocent. Is that a shock to anyone?

If a trial for a person suspected of breaking and entering was under way, and the jury was staffed entirely of persons who had been convicted of B and E, how do you think the verdict would come back? Or, if a jury trial for a person suspected of larceny was in progress, and the jury was staffed entirely by your next-door neighbors, would anyone be surprised when the verdict was not guilty.

This is an insult to Americans, and a slap in the face of justice.