As a CPA and a former member of Congress, I am saddened to see the accounting profession and certain members of the House, by their recent actions, refusing to put the public interest first. If SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt and William Webster, his choice to head the newly created Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, refuse to step down, they will appear to be facilitating those partisan and vested interests that are working hard to derail the corporate reforms promulgated b