THIS is news?
Real politicians of all parties don't consider stories of payoffs and questionable fundraisers to be ethics problems.
They consider them to be problems with intrusive nosy busybodies from the peasant classes.
Correct.
As dirty deals were floating to the surface, Harry Reid admonished his critics (paraphrasing)..... If your senator doesn’t have something self-serving in the bill, he/she isn’t doing their job.