Let’s go back to the 50′s.  Joe McCarthy, an alcoholic Republican Senator, rampaged through the country with his indiscriminate anti-communist crusade.  Even Eisenhower was afraid of him.  A Tea Party predecessor.

The next Republican administration was Richard Nixon’s.  Complete with Watergate.  Not a proud moment if one is Republican.  Well, maybe Republicans would be proud, but that’s what we’re talking about.

Skip Ford, move on to Reagan and GHWB.  Iran-contra, they broke American laws all over the place.  Conservatives adored Ollie North, who was transporting cocaine into the US, selling it, and using the money in contravention of law.  He lied to Congress and Republicans even ran this guy for the Senate.

(In here, a Democrat, Bill Clinton, got a blow job and lied to Congress about it.  Not a proud moment, but compare that to importing cocaine.  And the Republicans impeached him.  Lying about a blow job is worse than lying about importing and distributing illegal drugs.  Go figure.)

The next opportunity the Republicans had was GWB and Dick Cheney.  They simply lied their asses off and got the US involved in an illegal war, with all the attendant costs and miseries.  (I know, we avoided the crop dusters launched from merchant ships and spraying anthrax up and down the East Coast.  And the smoking gun’s mushroom cloud.  Those were said with straight, even solemn, faces.)  And created a financial crisis for the next guy that will take a long, long time of Democratic administrations if we are to recover.

In short, Republican corruption is a persistent quality.  We all want to believe each instance is an aberration, and yet it occurs every chance they get.  Over and over.  It’s not an aberration, it’s in their blood, it’s a persistent occurrence, happening whenever they get a chance.

Now there is evidence of Democratic corruption, too, and I’ll suggest it’s not on the scale of the Republican stuff, doesn’t involve national policy, doesn’t kill hundreds of thousands and cost trillions and isn’t as amoral as distributing illegal drugs to the children of the US.  Compare a married man lying about a blow job to a Republican administration imp0rting illegal drugs into the country as a matter of policy.  No comparison.

Sad, but true.  And they excuse it, the American people excuse it, and instead of dthrowing the lot into prison, they get re-elected.  So, the US deserves what it gets, and what it gets with Republicans is corruption on a scale that is unbelievable.  But true.