The cravenness was never clearer as G.O.P. House leaders passed a placebo rules change in place of honest reform -- and on the very day when one of their own , Representative Bob Ney of Ohio , was plea bargaining in the corruption investigation of his old friend Jack Abramoff , the disgraced uberlobbyist and influence peddler .
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