While there is a point, there is a much bigger picture. You cannot understand what the swamp has become by focusing on one little scandal. The scandal is that everyone in DC has his fingers in the taxpayer funded pie and the uniparty rats are eating the Treasury bare while producing nothing for the taxpayer.
It is pure and simple - rampant 3rd world style graft and corruption rotting out all the organs of the federal government. And ineffectual public employees are only a piece of the problem. The real corruption is all the private companies and foundations that are paid lots and lost of money to do nothing useful. Remember - no one inside the DC beltway makes a damn thing. That's why except for our cars we are so green. We can be. We don't do anything except metabolize tax money.
Well said, andy