Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously declared that she's running the "most ethical Congress ever." Beyond the continuing series of ethical problems faced by the likes of Charles Rangel and Eric Massa, and past problems with Congressmen Murtha and Jefferson, we now have the Speaker herself being smudged with ties between the new Ambassador to Hungary, whose nomination was cheered on by Pelosi, and her husband who brought the green to the already substantial Pelosi family fortune. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in Congress, proudly sang the praises of her longtime friend and major Democratic donor Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis during the California real estate developer's confirmation hearing in November as U.S. ambassador to Hungary."My husband and I are here as friends of the family and admirers of the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis family," she told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the Nov. 18 hearing. "I salute her for her...(Read Full Post)