Remember Nancy Pelosi’s famous declaration after the November 2006 elections made her the new Speaker of the House?
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.
Perhaps the best measure of how far short of that standard the Dem’s have fallen is not the criticism from Republicans, disillusioned Obama voters (Krauthammer: “You can only be disillusioned if you were once illusioned”), and rightward-drifting independents but what is said in their defense by their plucky, uncompromising defenders.
My favorite example: This headline of a Joan Walsh article in Salon yesterday:
“Are 2010 Dems as corrupt as the 2006 GOP?”
Given the “most honest, most open and most ethical” post-partisan promise of Pelosi, Obama, and their party, would it really matter even if were true that the answer to Walsh’s question is “not quite”?
