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Reason's Radley Balko demonstrates how Democrats are already showing signs of abandoning pledges to clean up Washington. West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan will keep his Appropriations Committee seat even though he was dismissed from the House ethics committee. As the Washington Post notes, in winning, he overcame "investigations of his real estate dealings and allegations that he used his influence to shift millions of taxpayer dollars to friends and relatives." Meanwhile, Rep. Alcee Hastings is set to be chair of the Intellegence Committee even though the former federal judge "was impeached and removed from the bench by a Democratic Congress in 1989 for taking bribes."