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Democrats played a good hand with the culture of corruption. One issue though, they were just as culpable in the corruption as the Republicans.

Democrats wallow in a ‘culture of corruption’
Meet the new political bosses, worse than the old political bosses.

Jonah Goldberg
May 5, 2009

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Democrats took back Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008 in no small part because of their ability to bang their spoons on their high chairs about what they called the Republican “culture of corruption.” Their choreographed outrage was coordinated with the precision of a North Korean missile launch pageant. And, to be fair, they had a point. The GOP did have its legitimate embarrassments. California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham and lobbyist Jack Abramoff were fair game, and so was Rep. Mark Foley, the twisted Florida congressman who allegedly wanted male congressional pages cleaned and perfumed and brought to his tent, as it were.