Ethics. Morality. Post election 2004 these terms are tossed around the political arena like beads at Mardi Gras. Perhaps that keyword callousness is the reason the Republican House pushed through a party-line vote to neuter the Ethics Committee rules? The party of morality apparently doesn’t believe ethics should apply to them.

The change in the House rules will make it much more difficult to file an ethics complaint (like the five previous ones issued to majority leader Tom DeLay). Even Republican Ethics Committee Chairman Joel Hefley has said this is “a terrible mistake.” Oh wait, rumor has it Hefley’s going to be removed from his post.

Do ethics simply need not apply to the majority, or have the House Republicans so quickly turned their backs on the “morals” that got them there?