Cleaning up Congress, noted.

Unfricking believable, especially for a party that campaigned against a "culture of corruption" by the Republicans.

Ed Morrisey at the Captains Quarters nails it neatly;

"So much for cleaning up Congress.

Jefferson will have no oversight over the DoJ or the FBI, but that's hardly the point. Two of Jefferson's aides have already been convicted of corruption and bribery directly involving Jefferson himself, and the FBI found almost a hundred thousand dollars in his freezer. That may not be enough to remove Jefferson from Congress -- his constituents did not think so, unfortunately -- but that doesn't mean that the Democrats have to put him on a committee with such grave responsibilities for the defense of the nation. Billions of dollars flow through that committee; how much of that will wind up in Dollar Bill's freezer in this session of Congress?"

I remember something from Tuchman's, "The Winds of August" about the upper class in pre WWI England. Civil service then was seen not as a privlege but a duty. Over here in this day and age it's become a ride on the gravy train.

Solzhenitsyn also wrote that a country gets the leaders it deserves. We are just so screwed.

Any other comments I'd make would get my blog shut down. I'll close now.