I read an article not too long ago about the politicians steeped in hookers and blow. The way that DC is acting these days (completely detached from the rest of the country) I can completely see that being the case.
The only other thing I can fathom is lots of them know the game (financially) is soon up so why not go nutz and see just how far they can push things to keep the party going.
Karl Marx once said that the way he saw things, after he made “bourgeois” society collapse, he “would stride through the wreckage a creator”. He really did have that kind of megalomania.