Oh what a tangled web we weave

Our political class has, by and large, been so unscrupulous, so ethically challenged, so lacking in so many ways for so long that it is easy sometimes to forget just how bad it is. Orin Kerr is here to remind us.

If I understand the history correctly, in the late 1990s, the President was impeached for lying about a sexual affair by a House of Representatives led by a man who was also then hiding a sexual affair, who was supposed to be replaced by another Congressman who stepped down when forced to reveal that he too was having a sexual affair, which led to the election of a new Speaker of the House who now has been indicted for lying about payments covering up his sexual contact with a boy.

Yikes.

Yikes, indeed.

If that trail of sexual peccadillos is too complex to follow, the ne'er-do-wells referenced are President Clinton, Speaker Newt Gingrich, Speaker Designate Bob Livingston, and Speaker Dennis Hastert.