Musgrave's staff gives ethics lecture!

This is in the Coloradoan. Marilyn thinks she's found her bandwagon to re-election.

To be a leader in Congress, it takes more than just jumping on the bandwagon when the right media wave hits. You have to see troubles ahead and begin seeking solutions long before it is politically convenient. For these reasons, I am pleased to see the debate in Washington finally turn to ethics reform.

So are a lot of people. You'll see.

Does anyone else wonder what planet she's on? Are we supposed to believe she can "see troubles ahead and begin seeking solutions"? The Jack Abramoff is a smoking crater in the ground and Marilyn tells us, 'Hey, I'm pretty sharp because I've got ideas about airplane safety.' Not "politically convenient"?!?!?!

She's had two terms in Congress, has been one of Tom DeLay's most Faithful, has introduced nothing to change the system, and has fed hungrily from Tom DeLay's campaign money trough, and now - when she's trying to keep her job - she tells us it's not politically convenient to start shouting about ethics?

Talk about out of touch.

In January, the Wall Street Journal quoted the self-professed criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He called the congressional appropriation committees "earmark favor factories."

Before President Bush called for ethical and spending reforms in his recent State of the Union Address, and before the Democrat political strategists chose to make this a campaign issue, I worked with my colleagues in both parties last year to find ethical solutions to end the abuses in the earmark process in Washington, D.C.

Get a load of this, Marilyn is pandering about ethics reform, but she still has to whine that Democrats are being unfair for telling people about Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay. Sad. Sad. Sad.