Look at Senator McCain and the Keating 5. This is no precedent, this is the political class being held unaccountable like back in Rome.
This is just pure government corruption at every level.
The American Republic ended on February 12, 1999. They still put on a pretty good circus on Capitol Hill, but no one close to DC takes it seriously. Limbaugh's faux outrage makes a good column, but he knows better.