Like "man bites dog" is news, but "dog bites man" is not, so goes political news. It is expected that RATs will be arrested for one thing or another; nothing to see here, move along...
I want "our guys" held to a higher standard anyway. It irks me to call them our guys, but with no viable conservative party, we have to work with what we've got.
Very good points.
Exactly.
Back around the time of Bill Bennett's book The Death of Outrage (1998), Mary Matalin correctly observed that nobody is outraged over the disgraceful antics and lying of Bill Clinton and the Democrats precisely because there was nothing surprising about it. It's what everybody expects from Democrats. Therefore, what's to be "outraged" about?