No ethics? Can’t count? You can work for the U.S. government

News flash! Unethical behavior reported at the highest levels! Financial ineptitude runs amok! Stop the presses! Welcome to today’s diet of bad and more bad government.

Let’s begin with the main course: details of egregious ethical lapses, courtesy of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington:

• No new enforcement mechanisms for congressional ethics.
• Ted Stevens still sitting on Senate Appropriations.
• Senate Ethics Committee looking into Sen. Craig, but not Sen. Vitter.
• Millions of missing White House emails still unaccounted for.
• Rep. John Murtha’s abuse of the earmarking process remains unchecked.
• Lurita Doan remains chief of GSA despite illegal conduct.

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