Professor Holbo ask the question: is criminality inborn or learned?
David Frum: “Over time, they [the Republican class of ’94] succumbed to some of the high-handed and self-serving practices of the old Democratic majority they defeated.”
Redstate: “Where he started by using the enemies’ tools against them, [DeLay] began to take part in the excesses of his Democrat predecessors.”
Could it be this Culture of Corruption thing has all been the fault of the Democrats, because they provided Republicans with a bad environment? It’s sort of an intriguing ‘root causes’ argument. Odd, though. I was led to understand hand-wringing about ‘root causes of crime’ was a liberal sort of thing to do.
Twain of course maintained that America had no native criminal class, except Congress.
The meta-question: does being in Congress corrupt someone or does it attract them?