Demagogue

Lotsa people have linked to Rich Lowry's column which states that the GOP cannot pretend that the Abramoff Scandal is bi-partisan. However, the parts that jumped out at me don't seem to be covered by others.

Lowry outlines two talking points that Dems should be hammering away at until they're hoarse and ready to pass out. This:

The GOP members can make a case that the scandal reflects more the way Washington works than the unique perfidy of their party, but even this is self-defeating, since Republicans run Washington.

and this...

There are two deeply rooted sources of corruption in Washington. One is that many members of Congress believe that they would be making much more than their $160,000-a-year salaries if they were in some other line of work. This sense is compounded when they watch their former 30-year-old aides go to work on K Street for $300,000 a year. This is how someone like Tom DeLay — otherwise a conviction politician — justifies playing the best golf courses in the world on someone else's dime and getting special interests to funnel easy money to his wife.