The House Democratic leadership appears to think you don't care about House ethics reform anymore.

They were all for it last fall, when control of Congress was in the balance and everyone was shocked that former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) had been chasing teenage pages for years, and no one had bothered to blow the whistle on him. That was when the Democrats promised they would stop the scandals that had plagued Capitol Hill for years and left members resigning from Congress in disgrace or heading to prison.

They said they would tighten ethics rules and lobbying requirements, and they did do that. But they have consistently ignored action on the most critical ethics problem: the toothless House Ethics Committee and its inability to punish members who break ethics rules.