In the months leading up the 2006 mid-term elections, Republicans were repeatedly hammered by ethics scandals, so much so that the Democrats promised that, if elected, they would be the corruption-free party. As you may recall, the Democrats had a few ethics problems of their own, albeit problems which never received quite the same media attention. The misdeeds of one of those Democratic rapscallions stood out as newsworthy, however, primarily because of the comically stereotypical situation in which the congressman found himself:
