RESOLUTION, LATHER, REPEAT:

Ethics turnabout is fair play, GOP says (JOHN BRESNAHAN, 3/10/09, Politico)

House Republicans are stepping up their attacks on Democrats over ethics issues — and they’re stealing a page from Nancy Pelosi’s playbook to do it.

Over the past three weeks, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has filed three privileged resolutions calling for a House ethics committee probe into the connection between earmarks and campaign contributions. [...]

The rat-a-tat resolutions are aimed at the relationship between Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) and PMA Group, a lobby shop raided by federal authorities last year. But they’re also a not-so-subtle shot at Pelosi, who as minority leader personally filed a dozen privileged resolutions calling for ethics investigations into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and other Republicans.