I am so fed up with the antics of Congress as a whole, and not just one party, I feel as though I just want to pull out my hair and scream.

They don’t seem to do anything anymore for the sake of the country, but only for the sake of their precious parties, and neither party is pure in anything.

They stay in campaign mode from the day of one election to the day of the next. Look at how long they have made the presidential contest this time. For what? Do we need two years of harping about the same old same old before we finally get them to shut up for a day so we can vote and then the next day someone new can start running ads for the next election?

Congressman William Jefferson is indicted on 16 charges and the House of Representatives can’t resist pointing fingers at each other as though either side is clean on issues of corruption.

Monday’s indictment of Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) touched off an ethics battle in the House yesterday, with leaders from both parties moving quickly against Jefferson even as they accused each other of having no real interest in tighter ethics rules.

In short order, the House last night approved a Democratic motion that would make an ethics investigation automatic upon the indictment of any House member and then approved a Republican motion that could lead to Jefferson’s expulsion.

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Rep. Stephanie Tubb Jones(D-Ohio), chairman of the ethics committee, announced that her panel will reconvene an investigative subcommittee assembled last year to probe allegations against Jefferson. That panel disbanded with the end of the last Congress. But she bristled at Boehner’s resolution as an encroachment into her jurisdiction.

“As a Committee, we will fulfill our responsibility to the House of Representatives. I refuse to allow these proceedings to be politicized by House Republican Leadership,” Tubbs Jones said in a statement.

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For Republicans, Jefferson’s indictment on 16 counts of corruption, racketeering and bribery marked an opportunity to shift attention from their own ethics issues, which have nearly half a dozen GOP lawmakers under federal investigation and forced three members to resign. But their moves also leave them exposed to countercharges of hypocrisy.

GOP leaders made no moves to expel Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) from the House after their indictments last year, going out of their way to try to preserve a path for DeLay’s return to the leadership and saying Ney would have to decide whether to resign.

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“After Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney, I’m very proud my colleagues from the other side of the aisle have finally found their moral voice,” said Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.).

They all seem to have forgotten that when you point a finger you have three more pointing back at you.