1.0 link 11398 <![CDATA[Scandal Land]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-schlesinger/scandal-land_b_11398.html Today’s must-read comes from The Washington Post’s Jeff Birnbaum, who takes a look at the larger portents of the congressional corruption convictions of the last week.

First former DeLay flak-turned-lobbyist Mike Scanlon pled guilty to attempting to corrupt public officials, then yesterday, now former Rep. Randy “Duke†Cunningham, a truculent California conservative admitted what everyone else had figured out months ago: That he had taken bribes (including a 150-year old commode).

Birnbaum:

For several years now, corporations and other wealthy...
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