I can’t even begin to imagine the mass screeching that would ensue if President Bush had all the ethics issues that have plagued Barack Obama since he started to involve Chicago and the Clintonistas into his pending administration. But as we’re now collectively picking on the ethics-challenged, get ready for a plethora of whiny spins to be made on Democrats’ behalf.

More and more these days, my morning newspaper reads like an ensemble comedy of errors cast entirely with Democrats: Bill Richardson probed! Blago busted! Charlie Rangel investigated! Eliot Spitzer ruined! Kwame Kilpatrick jailed! Bill “Freezer” Jefferson indicted! … and so on. Ugh. Are the Democrats — so recently awarded power as the clean alternative to the dirty DeLay generation of Republicans — developing their own “culture of corruption” problem? Or could they, at least, be effectively painted as corrupt for the GOP’s political gain in 2010 or 2012?

Thanks for the refresher. I’d begun to lose count.

Republicans sure think so! The National Republican Congressional Committee is already blasting out Rangel-related mailers, and Michelle Malkin has been writhing around as gleefully as a five-year-old in a ball pit full of Blow-Pops: “[T]he Democrat ‘culture of corruption’ boomerang has returned to smack the donkeys right back in the face,” she gushed in a recent column. (Unsatisfied with merely one giddy cliche, she added two more: “Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. [T]he corruption chickens are coming home to roost” and “The Democrats have met the culture of corruption, and it looks like it ain’t just elephants among the jackasses soiling public office.” Not bad for 650 words.)

It’s excruciating to watch all these Democrats clomp around in clown shoes. But, at least for now, it won’t matter!

Oh, it just may.

This Democrat missteppin’ looks like only the beginning.

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