BELTWAY REPUGS SEEK TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM GARY MILLER AS INDICTMENT NEARS

With Republicans getting nervous about Gary Miller's corruption being in the newspapers everyday, the extreme right-wing congressman has been coming under more and more pressure to resign. Today's Hill says he's still putting up a brave front and pleading-- as they all do-- innocence. He blames the media and the Democrats for the FBI and IRS investigations into the millions of dollars he managed to "acquire" through questionable real estate manipulations and by not paying any taxes on his huge profits.

Before Miller wad dragged in front of a closed GOP caucus meeting to defend his behavior, Boehner (R-OH) warned that the GOP will never win back the majority if people just continue seeing them as the party of corruption and that they need "an ethics strategy." He said members need to hold each other accountable. He mentioned that aside from Miller, two other egregiously corrupt Republicans from California, Jerry Lewis and John Doolittle, were also on the FBI's short list of possible indictees. Although he said that Lewis and maybe even Doolittle should be presumed innocent until proven guilty, he couldn't with a straight face make the same asserts about Miller. He wants to get Miller out of his position as ranking member on the Finance Committee’s Oversight and Investigations panel, which some Republicans-- especially the ones on the extreme fringe of the party (Miller's ideological home base)-- see as unfair because when the far right loons complained about Lewis retaining his status as ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, Boehner let it slide. Miller is unlikely to run again, although several members of the OC GOP say they're still behind him no matter what he's done.


UPDATE: THE DCCC IS ALL OVER THIS ONE. THEY SMELL BLOOD IN THE WATER

Brandon English is running The Stakeholder now that Jesse has gone on to work for Speaker Pelosi. And it's looking like Gary Miller is a heartfelt special project of Brandon's. Good! Let's shine the light on that varmit! I have a good feeling that the DCCC will see to it that, at the very least, Miller won't have a free ride next year like he did last year.