This effort to hold Republicans accountable (to a standard higher than the Abramoff business as usual standard) seems eminently worthy of a link. I agree that the new leadership should be "thoroughly and transparently free of the taint of the Jack Abramoff scandals" as well as undue influence by K Street lobbyists.

I also welcome the entry of Congressman Shadegg:

....we hope to see more candidates who will support these goals, and we therefore welcome the entry of Congressman John Shadegg to the race for Majority Leader. We hope every Congressman who is committed to ethical and transparent conduct supports a reform agenda and a reform candidate. And we hope all would-be members of the leadership make themselves available to new media to answer questions now and on a regular basis in the future.

I say this because I'm quite accustomed to being ignored. As matter of fact, I'm still waiting to hear from my congressman (Jim Gerlach) in response to my polite PorkBusters-related call. I'd simply like to know whether he favors cutting pork, and it's been months without so much as a courtesy form letter. I hope that's not business as usual, although reading stuff like this about him is hardly reassuring. Nor is the fact that his opponent in the upcoming election is doing her damnedest to tie him to the Abramoff crowd.

It doesn't take a moralist or an ethicist to see that business as usual these days is an unwise strategy.