No one holds them accountable. No one. The majority of voters don't seem to care. Businesses and taxpayers don't care.
Until thinking Democrats (the quintissential oxymoron) hold their party accountable, this won't change. Fact is, it will get worse. The question is, are there any limits? Not yet.
The founding fathers gave extraordinary power to what is often called the fourth branch of government. Newspapers, or as they evolved into the major media, as we know it now. They have choosen to take sides rather than act as a watchdog, and they are paying a price.
Corruption could not exist if it was exposed as it really exist, and not glossed over as occurs now. One reason for this, is that those in the media today strongly believe in the same goals as the Democrats, and tend to wink at their corruption.
On the other side, the media will destroy someone they do not like.
I do not believe Republicans are less capable of corruption, they just have a more difficult time hiding it, add to that fact that the conservative base of the Republican party will vote a crook out of office (or at the very least stay home and not vote at all)it is hard for a Republican to become too corrupt before they are gone.
So the Democrats get a pass on the minor stuff, and then graduate to more and more corruption until it is too blantant for even the media to ignore.
Times are changing. The Democrats have had over 70 years to turn this country into a social paradise, and have failed. (Socialism is still rampant, but I firmly believe we have reached its peak, and we are at the begining of the swing the other way.)
The smart Democrats know this, and it scares them. That is the reason for these desparate measures. If the Republicans do not win the Senate this election, then it will be the next. Soon we will have a majority in the House, the Senate and have the Presidency.
The Democratic party will go the way of the Whigs.
As in "No controlling legal authority?"
And whoever said character doesn't count...