Letter to The Washington Post

Ruth Marcus' April 4 editorial "Fox-in-the Henhouse Government"(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301576.htmlwww.washingtonpost.com) is another in a long line of Post hatchet jobs on the Bush administration. OK lying to Congress is not a good thing, but the rest is merely allegation without context and Ms Marcus seems to think that any and all regulation is good, and any attempt to curtail or cut back on regulation is bad. That's a political position, not an indictment of bad behavior.
After reading the paper I searched the Post web site for any information on the recent resignation of Diane Feinstein from the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee she has been the ranking member or chair of the last six years. (http://leaningstraightup.com/2007/03/30/dianne-feinstein-
resigns-in-ethics-scandalnot-that)-the-media-cares/. Here Ms Marcus and the reporters of the Post could deal in facts that hardly need context to understand, and that does not deal with allegations, but actual violations of the law. It is a fact that well over one billion dollars, some in no-bid contracts, went to companies her husband controlled until 2005. Randy Duke Cunningham is spending significant time in jail for appropriating some two million dollars for his own use and that pales in comparison to the Feinstein caper.
Some questions Ms Marcus and her fellow reporters could answer: Is Ms Feinstein being investigated by the Justice Department? Should she also resign as head of the Rules Committee, which would have her, in effect, investigating herself for breach of Senate Rules? Was that assignment appropriate or just convenient? Is there some reason you do not think that Democrats ripping off the taxpayer is a negative or do you just believe that being a Republican is a felony? Is the preferred treatment merely another example of Media Bias?