When even dimwits like Eleanor Holmes Norton feel free to openly demand their share of the bribes, you know the system is hopelessly corrupted.
She does know the landscape, however. Who’s going to stop her? Holder and his “justice” department?
And there’s the example set by the Lizard Queen, who laundered the groper’s bribes as the First “Lady” of Arkansas. That’s what Whitewater was all about. She was secretary of state, before she got an ambassador murdered.
Via Instapundit.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I always thought that in the “corrupt politician” the first word is redundant.
There have been exceptions. When he retired for health reasons Sam Rayburn, who had been a powerful congressman from Texas, was understood to have little more than a small pension and the small house he owned in North Texas. Somewhere along the line the crookedness became the norm, such that it’s now hard to imagine someone like Mr. Sam anymore.