The saddest part about this is the way the Republicans will and have been responding to this. They haven't totally washed their hands clean of DeLay and co., but instead they have basically attributed it to the way Washington supposedly works. So their response isn't any kind of attrition, it's more of a "hey, Democrats do it too, that's Washington, wink wink" sort of thing.
This will simply lead to more apathy and hatred towards politics, more of the same old cliches about politics as usual, blah blah blah.
2006 is going to be sad.
