According to news accounts of Friday’s Heh, Heh, Heh, Ethics Board meeting, the board as well as those who passed them are having a problem understanding the new “gold standard” of ethics pushed by Bobby Jindal.

Board chairman Frank Simoneaux, lawyer and former lawmaker, in response to questions about the new law said it was a “real quagmire.”

One of the questions to which Simoneaux referred was from the Clerk of House of Representatives on behalf of the lawyer members of the House.

If an astute, veteran, lawyer like Simoneaux can’t understand the law, how are us mullets supposed to?

If the leges had been doing their job, they’d have asked Jindal what was in the law before they passed it. Instead, the leges abdicated their responsibility as a separate and equal branch of government and blindly followed Jindal.

It’s time the leges starting acting like leges and stop being lapdogs to Jindal.

Aristotle said: “Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.”

How can the ethics laws be obeyed (or enforced) if the people who made them don’t even know what they mean?

C.B.