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Sitting here, I can just keep throwing names out, almost without thinking: Jim Wright. Dan Rostenkowski. (these were speakers of the house, not mere obscure congressmen). Right now, Alan Mollohan (sp?) is under investigation, this minute, today. And this is without doing a lick of research, just off the top of my head.
I think you just have to resign yourself to the fact that politicians are politicians, that being close to power breeds corruption, and that it's neither a Dem nor Rep phenomenon. The notion that there is anything unique about the lamentable way the recent Repubulican majority behaved is fanciful. I would submit, in fact, that the reason the Republicans lost their majority was precisely because their own base got disgusted that they were behaving just like the old-time Dems who they threw out in '94.
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