I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Dems (and everyone sensible) need to work on requiring even-handed disclosure of financial relationships across the board and prohibitions of actual conflicts, not prohibiting anything that might trigger paranoia whether it is a problem or not. Those are laws we can get through and that will make sense, and they would really help a lot right now.

Democrats ought to hold themselves to a higher standard relative to whatever laws they might persuade a Republican Congress to enact, which I say less because I'm on a moral high horse -- hey, better for Obama to have that money than Cantor, he's more likely to spend it in a socially beneficial way, I would think -- and more because Republicans like to accuse Democrats of being corrupt too, and one way to defuse those attacks is to hold oneself to a higher standard than whatever the law allows.

Focusing your time and energy on Obama taking a speaking fee after he's left office at a time when we have a President who has made minimal disclosure of his financial ties at a point while his children are cutting deals we don't know about in the white house with foreign powers is insanity.

I'm posting on a chatboard for lawyers, and you're thinking you can improve how I allocate my time and energy? Obviously there's plenty of room for gains to be made, but thinking you're going to help me at this point seems like hubris.