Won't it just be special when there is no longer a double standard in the congress, and those of both parties no longer enjoy any Schadenfreude. The viscous glee, and downright evil ecstasy at the misfortune of anyone not of their own party persuasion. It can happen. I imagine it was so in the early days of the Republic. Party at the polls, but the rest of the time it is the country and the people that deserve far better than we have gotten.
This little character quirk, is owned by the party out of power, but that would be leaning toward how they appear to operate, so lets strike that comment, and hope and pray for a congress, and especially a senate, full of wise, intelligent, caring people without a bad bone in their bodies, and watch those lessons distill on the American public that they have been negatively influencing for longer than I have been alive.
This is not something done "by the party out of power," this is a manufactured scandal and that requires the complicity of Democrats.
I think you would be wrong about the factionalizm of the early republic.