This just in: Republicans are corrupt and even Republicans admit

Some anyway. Now if the voters will either demand good government or vote for it, we might have a chance.

JC Watts, my former representative, had this to say last fall:

KnoxNews | No Silence Here: "I was part of that wild and crazy Class of '94 that shook the political landscape by taking over the House after more than 50 years of unfettered Democrat control. We came to Washington full of ideals and conviction. But sadly, what they say about absolute power is coming to reality in the 2005 GOP Washington. Republicans in just 10 years have developed the arrogance it took the Democrats 30 years to develop.'"

Now this one is admitting the same thing:

USATODAY.com - In Congress, 'we simply have too much power': "We simply have too much power,' says Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., speaking of lawmakers' ability to target tax dollars for particular projects, contractors or campaign donors. 'We Republicans have abused that power badly over the past several years.'"

and from George Will:

For the House GOP, A Belated Evolution: "Until the Bush administration, with its incontinent spending, unleashed an especially conscienceless Republican control of both political branches, conservatives pretended to believe in limited government. The past five years, during which the number of registered lobbyists more than doubled, have proved that, for some Republicans, conservative virtue was merely the absence of opportunity for vice."