Just wonderin', is all...

If all but one Republican members of the House saw fit to vote for ethics reform on Thursday, if they believed that strongly that reform was needed, why couldn't they have introduced their own bill when they controlled the House?

Does it perhaps hearken back to the views and tactics of the Christofascist Zombie Brigade, that because they lack self-control, they think no one else can possibly have any either? Did they need some kind of "authority figure", in this case the Democrats, of all people, to tell them what was right? And if that's the case, what does it say about the "Daddy party"?

(Side note: The only Republican to vote against the bill, Indiana Rep. Dan Burton, is that wonderful guy who once executed a hapless watermelon in an attempt to "prove" that Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons. Funny how the "suicides" of:

• U.N. weapons inspector David Kelly, who "committed suicide" days after appearing before the U.K. Foreign Affairs Select Committee about the bogus Iraq WMD claims;
  
• Enron executive Cliff Baxter, who "committed suicide" days after agreeing to testify to Congress about Enron;
  
• Paul Sanford, a California civil rights attorney who in 2005 questioned White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan about whether violating the statute about disclosing the identity of a CIA non-official cover agent consituted treason, who inexplicably jumped to his death from a hotel balcony for no apparent reason on December 24;
  
• John J. Kokal, an official of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Near East and South Asian division, who questioned the claims of WMD in Iraq and apparently jumped from the roof of the State Department and was found on November 7, 2003
  
• former Bush White House technology adviser Gus Weiss, who opposed the Iraq war and who jumped to his death from the Watergate Hotel (!!!) on 11/25/03 -- weeks after Kokal's suicide
  

...don't seem to arouse the same skepticism from Mr. Burton.