Frisco Nan's Newest Conflict of Interest Scam

It's official!

Nancy "Frisco Nan" Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of US Representatives, is explicitly and admittedly involved in more conflicts of interest.

According to an August 23, 2008 Wall Street Journal story, Frisco Nan is both boosting T. Boone Pickens' energy "plan," as well as investing in Pickens' Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

Of course, Nan's staff dismisses the conflict of interest as acceptable because she is "an advocate for increasing our country's energy independence and for renewable energy for years, long before this purchase."

Charming. So long as you claimed to have been conceptually aligned with a conflict of interest's other side, it's alright to go ahead and invest in a sector of the economy which you, as Speaker, also plan to invasively change via legislation.

In fact, according to the Journal piece, Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics said,

"The ethics rules are so incredibly narrow that unless you are pushing or voting for something that will impact only you, it doesn't count as a conflict."

And you wonder why we've all lost faith in the Federal Government and, most of all, Congress. I don't see Friso Nan or Harry Reid having rushed to change these self-serving ethics rules, do you?

Any lining of your own pockets is thus perfectly acceptable- to Democratic party ethics, that is.

No, things haven't changed in Washington with the recent Democratic party-ruled Congress. Frisco Nan is as grafted-up and dirty as any Republican Congressman ever was.

And now it's public and official, just in time for the 2008 elections. Maybe this will help Nan get a new office, after all. Perhaps a bit smaller? With a new job- one with significantly less responsibility?