Why Democrats Are Even Less Tainted

A Democratic staffer relayed the following to Marshall:

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall February 10, 2006 12:03 PM:

"The vast majority of Democratic staffers work on the Hill, despite the miserable pay and long hours, to try to achieve some measure of good. Many, many Republican staffers- convinced that government is an evil- work here in order to make money off that necessary evil. That breeds corruption. When you have a majority of members and staffers that could care less about policy ad governing and more about power/influence/money/profit Abramoff is inevitable. When the hard, tedious work of legislating and oversight is done by people motivated by careerism rather than professionalism not only do you have Abramoff, but you have Michael Brown, Halliburton, and illegal NSA wiretapping."

I think that sums up a good deal of the problem in small nutshell; it's service to others vs. service to self. We know whom the vast majority of the Rabid Right serves.