Mr Rocky Top

Harold Ford, Jr, interrupted the ethics news conference being held by Bob Corker in Memphis. Corker was introducing a proposal to help improve ethics in Congress when Ford decides to crash the party and start yelling about Iraq. How stupid and immature can you get? What was Ford thinking when he decided to interrupt Corker? Corker ended the confrontation this way:

"Tell me, what do you think about this Iraq thing?" Ford asked. "I know you're here to talk about my family. I thought you made a promise right after ..."

"No, no, no. I'm here to talk about you, and this race. And I'm going to do that right now. As a matter of fact this is my press conference," Corker said and walked away.

One of the points behind Corker's ethics proposal is to not allow lobbyists to be family members of lawmakers. This takes a little jab at Ford because his father used to lobby Jr. for Fannie Mae. Ford, of course, lies by saying this:

"I fully support prohibiting family members from lobbying members of Congress," Ford said in a statement. "As Mr. Corker knows full well, I have never been lobbied by any member of my family at any time on any matter before the Congress."

(story here)

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