[Zeroisanumber]

Yes, I think that was a big part of it too (maybe bigger than the war in Iraq). We were in the majority, but allowed the Democrats to set the agenda and we didn't show some backbone.

I don't even think that it was a matter of backbone or agenda, I think that our guys went up to the hill and got corrupt as hell on the money and power. Say what you will about Tip O'Neil, but it took his party 40 years on the hill to vomit out a majority leader that crooked, and it took us less than 10 years to gorge ourselves mad at the public trough.

[Humal]

Do you think George Allen, Curt Weldon, and Rick Santorium, to name a few, were "crooked"?