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Instead, they squandered their lead through an orgy of self-indulgence and narcissism. The lobbyist travel scandals, the Foley affair and earmarking of funds for every last piece of pork in their districts cost the Republicans their virtue and their House majority.

Can't argue there. From Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, and Tom Delay, to Mark Foley. I mean how much do you really expect the American people to take? And were supposed to be a party with integrity?

mean how much do you really expect the American people to take? And were supposed to be a party with integrity?

But here's the rub. Democrats caught up in scandal like Jefferson, Mollohan, Menedez and even Harry Reid were all either re-elected soundly or potentially elevated to Senate Majority leader. The reason? The media all but ignored their scandals, (including the fact that Mollohan had to be removed from the co-chair position of the House Ethics Committee by the Dems. for rewarding campaign contributors with pork projects,) in some cases scandal more substantial than anything Republicans other than Duke Cunningham were caught up in.

Indeed, think of the sick irony of the NJ Senate seat where Jersites sent the absolutely corrupt Menedez back to the Senate despite being under criminal investigation and yet turned out the squeaky clean Mike Dewine in Ohio to pay for the sins of Ohio's Republican governor guilty of 4 misdemeanors including the petty failure to report sports tickets given him.

So if Americans were turning out Republicans over corruption, then they did so with an amazing double-standard and not just a bit of hypocrisy. It's unfair really when you consider Republicans largely dispatched with their sleazeoids while Democrats just hid theirs in a backroom until after the elections, expecting and exacting zero accountability from them.

But one has to credit the media with that for ignoring Democratic corruption while hyping even mere allegations or the appearance of wrong with Republicans such as a raid on Curt Weldon's daughters home that in no way suggests guilt. Yet Weldon lost. Jefferson, Mollohan, Menedez, and Reid on the other hand had a good night last night.

You may call that America showing righteous indignation. That such indignation was applied solely to Republicans I call absolute dysfunction and ignorance by an electorate increasingly brainwashed by the Clown Car Media.

"I mean how much do you really expect the American people to take?"

They took Clinton for two terms, and he rivals Carter as the most destructive and corrupt Anti-American President in the last century, or the two before it.

If this is truly a replay of 1974, as some wise pundits are saying, start looking for the other signs of redux. Certainly the stabbing-in-the-back of the American Military is next, the abrogation of treaty obligations, and abandonment of the Iraqi people to slaughter is due to follow, just like the Democrat Congress did for Viet Nam.

You can throw in the rest of the Middle East, Taiwan and who-knows-where-else in the mix.

Then comes "Malaise", double digit inflation and interest rates, high unemployment, and the sense of hopelessness only Jimmy Carter could inspire.

We almost lost the Cold War because of this Democrat Wonderland of failure and collapse, and now we could be watching the very real loss in the WOT by the same party. We shall see.