Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a well-regarded left-leaning watchdog, chomped...

"The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

The whole point of corruption is that it gives you the $$$ you need to be powerful. Thus, those most likely to win a post are also those we would least like to see occupy it.

C'est la guerre.

Another week of press coverage on Murtha would focus some minds in the caucus.

Which, as a Dem, I have to hope is correct. This is not the time for internecine warfare in the Dem caucus. Not that there's ever a good time for it, but certainly not now.