Originally Posted by ratbastid

I was responding largely to Ustwo's assertion that this was a case of the Republican Party getting rid of a rotten apple. Look, DeLay has been the rottenest damn apple American politics has seen since Nixon, and everybody's known it, and nobody did anything about it for decades. So I flat don't buy the spin that all these instances of malfeasant Republicans is a result of the GOP policing itself.

I'm also not asserting that the Dems police themselves either, or that every single Democrat is squeaky-clean. Nobody has said that, either, I'm just heading off a likely target of moderator wrath.