They're at it again...

The Saturday New York Times has a report on the decision of the House of Representatives to consider an independent ethics panel to replace the utterly useful joke of a Committee that currently oversees House rules.

This in the immediate aftermath of the indictment of Arizona Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, the latest in a lengthy list nicely summarized by the Washington Post. And ten days after a slew of reports on the failure of the Senate Ethics Committee to act on Sen. Larry Craig -- the best headline of the group coming from the Detroit Free-Press, with its report that the investigation "Seems Stalled." Meanwhile, Federal corruption investigations into the actions of Rep. Jerry Lewis and Sen. Ted Stevens, Ranking Minority Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee respectively, continue, although at a staggeringly slow pace.

Once again, in the face of overwhelming evidence, the House is looking to put a Band-Aid on over a gaping wound. It's pathetic.