That didn’t take long.
Congressional Republicans decided to gut an ethics watchdog group, prompting the president-elect to send out a tweet that said they should focus on other matters first; then the House GOP caucus decided to scrap the watchdog-gutting, apparently cowed by Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade.
I’m glad the House GOP thought better of the cockamamie idea to place ethics investigations solely within the House Ethics Committee, which is run by Republicans.
What’s next? The bipartisan independent group will continue to refer complaints to Congress if they deem them legitimate. They’ll be able to accept anonymous complaints.
Does this mean Donald Trump has found some ethical “religion”? Probably not. He’s got a slew of problems himself to resolve.
It does mean, though, that he seems to have put the fear of social media into the minds of his fellow Republicans.
Still, it’s a clumsy start to the next congressional session.