Oh, those ethics!

The House of Representatives just reversed the changes they made to their ethics rules. They had changed a rule that required House leaders to step down if they were indicted for a crime and they were considering making it more difficult to "rebuke a House member for misconduct." Instead they reinstated the indictment rule and kept the misconduct rules the same.

But don't be fooled-- they didn't discover the error of their ways or anything-- they're just trying to deny the Democrats an issue to harp on:

'Hastert spokesman John Feehery said that a change in standards of conduct "would have been the right thing to do but it was becoming a distraction" '

Translation: "We'd really like to abolish all accountability, but we'll just wait until no one is paying attention."