Let's not forget one thing.
“This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” – Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006
And besides, the Democrats apologized so that makes everything alright.
I'm going to break ranks here and actually blame the American people for this. In the U.S. the citizens are still able to elect their government, for now anyway. I'm sick and tired of having half the population not vote and the majority of the voting population vote based on their emotions. The American electoral process has become nothing more than an extravagant advertising and marketing campaign. When people see a product that sounds too good to be true advertised on TV, they instinctively know that they're listening to a bunch of marketing BS. Yet, they vote for candidates not based on ideology but based on appearance, rhetoric and demagoguery. When both parties engage in these tactics, the people don't rise up against them and demand an alternative but instead continue to send them to office. Why would you change your tactics, care about the appearance of what you did or how you did it when year in and year out the American voters (a.k.a. morons) continue to give you their stamp of approval. Every year the government grows, taxes and the cost of living increase, more freedom erodes, more corruption permeates all levels of government and yet the people go on doing the same thing.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. - Albert Einstein.
I guess we're all insane. Actually, what we really are is a bunch of lazy, soft, pacified people (or perhaps, more appropriately, as Michael Savage would say, sheeple), a country of consumers (good for the multi nationals) and taxpayers (good for the politicians) being constantly force fed entertainment to keep us that way.
Sorry for the rant but sometimes I feel like any prospect for true change is futile.