GOP to Reverse Ethics Rule Blocking New DeLay Probe
January Change Led Democrats to Shut Down Panel

House Republican leaders, acknowledging that ethics disputes are taking a heavy toll on the party's image, decided yesterday to rescind a controversial rule change that led to the three-month shutdown of the ethics committee, according to officials who participated in the talks.
Dr. Frist's nuclear option is bombing; worldwide terrorism increased "sharply" last year but the State Department has let us know that it doesn't want us to know; Social Security likely will not be deformed by private accounts; there were NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION in Iraq (poor Charles Duelfer-- he's said it three times. Can he click his heels together and go home now?); Bush strolled hand-in-hand through the bluebonnets with Prince Abdullah but didn't get enough new oil to make his nose brown; our President doesn't believe in condoms, even as prophylactics, but takes a whore to the prom; John Bolton looks about as good a nominee for high office as Bernie Kerik; and Harry Reid keeps kicking sand back into the bully's face (Daily Kos has muchmuchmore). read on