Ministerial accountability is useless when used as a political shield

Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez told the House Ethics Committee 'ministers are the best source of accountability and they must be heard,’ but does that still ring true when they’re not the ones responsible for a decision?The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

March 31, 2021

The buck stops with the people who are elected to make decisions. That should be a generally and broadly accepted fact of politics. Of course, this flies in the face of people who are constantly looking for scapegoats to excuse either the decisions made by the politicians on their preferred side of...

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