Geographically, I'm represented by Nancy Pelosi. In her latest piece of franking mail, she wrote:

Only by restoring truth and trust in our government can we roll out an agenda to renew America's promise.

Does this mean that we won't see congressional Democrats offer an agenda until after your America for Sale report is put back up on the House Democrats website?

Why are Democrats so afraid of Republicans?

We wwant to help you get more exposure for this.  This is brilliant work.

If there are any Hill staffers reading this, please tell your bosses to wake th hell up.  They should be pushing this, and ethics charges against Republicans, to position the party to take over the House this year.

You have a better chance of taking over if you are coordinated and aggressive than if you remain loyal to this idiotic, off the record ethics truce.

Please file ethics complaints.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)has filed numerous complaints but no one in the house has stepped up... Why?

You have been a tireless crusader on corruption so why has this avenue not been used ?

Thank you Rep. Slaughter

Straight off the bat - it's extremely bad manners to provide a link to a page which is behind a pay-wall (in this case, Roll Call) without making this clear.

Even The Note doesn't bother with Roll Call links as a courtesy to the vast majority of its readers who don't have a subscription.

(Just a Note to whoever scribed this piece!)

Next - said scribe clearly has not been reading the leading lefty blogs - including this one! - or is deliberately ignoring the main complaint about this business: the Pelosi kow-tow. (The point of earlier commenters here.)

The fact that this is left as a super-jumbo elephant in the room in the piece screams that this is an item of hack-work whose author does not care that it insults our intelligence.

And Amen to the call for Slaughter herself to get the Ethics Committee moving with a complaint or two.

She won't - because Pelosi has her hog-tied. As we've established for some time, Dem Congressmen will file ethics complaints over her dead body. And that goes for Slaughter, too.

(I can't see Slaughter confronting Pelosi on the issue, and putting her position at risk in an election year when House control is genuinely in play.)

Of course, it's possible even in the real world that Pelosi will come to regret her ultraconservative policy on ethics when it comes to elections for the Dem House leadership in the 110th.

Especially if the Dems have won back control, and her troops wonder whether so careful a general would make the most of their opportunities.

Louise for President.

...because they're liars!  As Jon Stewart said after Katrina, "If you don't want to play the blame game, it's because YOU'RE TO BLAME!"  Same thing applies here.

Thank you, Representative Slaughter.  Thank you for standing up to the Republican slime machine; thank you for what you are doing for our country.  More of our public servants should look to your shining example.