What is the point of being a politician if you can't take bribes?
Exactly, anyone worth 500,000 going into the senate who doesn't have a few tens of millions when they leave, is just not paying attention.
Correcticus! Didn't the famous LBJ fix the standing rules for all presidential and congresscritter thieves? Of course, and then all RATs in whatever office read and used the rules. Some Pubbies did too and all are despicable.