This excerpt from HuffPo's article is self-explanatory:
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who signed Cruz’s letter and defended Cruz’s attacks against Hagel during a committee vote on the nomination, made no attempt to hide the hypocrisy.
When The Huffington Post asked Inhofe on Monday night if this same standard of disclosing foreign payments should apply to Trump’s Cabinet nominees, he said it shouldn’t.
“So it’s different now because it’s Trump?” we asked.
“That’s just right,” Inhofe said.
“That’s right?” we asked to clarify.
“Yeah,” he said.It's like I said, a Republican Congress will not act as a check or balance against a Republican White House.
You can look throughout the last 60 years and see that it's been Democrats who've enacted protocols and laws to keep corruption in Congress and the White House in check. Anti-nepotism? Office of Congressional Ethics? 1978 Ethics in Government Act establishing public disclosure rules for political appointees? 1962 anti-bribery and conflict of interest laws? All established with Democrats in majority control.
Republicans gave us...Nixon, Bush, and now, The Emperor.
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