It’s knives-out season for Capitol Hill creeps. After Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales were forced to resign their congressional seats following allegations of sexual impropriety, Congress has turned into a circular firing squad of claims and callouts. Members past and present, not to mention the media, are encouraging staffers to come forward and reveal who did what on that Vegas trip or congressional retreat. Cockburn, who has some track record with these stories, has one eye on his inbox as ever.The chatter has picked up over the past few days ahead of the House Ethics Committee today. A list of investigations of alleged sexual misconduct by members was published, detailing the outcomes. Former congressman George Santos, tweeted out his own list of unsubstantiated allegations on Sunday and has been encouraging staffers to contact him with anecdotes about Representatives Michael Guest and Nancy Mace. Mace in turn has been leading the charge to expel Representative Cory Mills, who she calls “the worst kind of pond scum in Congress.” Mills is the subject of an Ethics Committee probe examining allegations that he physically assaulted a mistress of his; Mills in turn branded Mace “a hypocrite who abuses her power and is an opportunist.”

No wonder, then, that the calls to reform Congress’s ethical procedures are mounting. Anna Paulina Luna, the Republican who led the charge to expel Swalwell and Gonzales, states her case in The Spectator today. “Addressing this problem demands a complete overhaul, starting with the committees meant to uphold the integrity of Congress, a standard they are........

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