impressive listing.

i guess i wouldn't be surprised if, say, someone in a position to discover all of this -- before the general public could have -- attempted to use that information to, ah, strongly suggest that the not-yet-discredited do, maybe, a small political favor for them, appropriate to their own line of work, and perhaps the situation can be mitigated in the meanwhile, and after all, it's for the public good, don't you know.

of course, that's just tinfoil hat talk.

Being these are all Liberals, they would be the first to say you are out of line even bringing this up after all, they are more moral, more compassionate, approach things from a loftier plane of consciousness that they are exempt from the normal rules of morality and law that us ordinary citizens are subject to.
Any laws these reprobates signed or passed after committing their crime is invalid. The people didn't vote for these criminals to fraudulently palm themselves off as clean and honest. Anyone think Spitzer will do time?

What's that you say? Indictments, racketeering convictions, fraud and extortion raps, etc.? Hey, those are simply the kinds of business downturns that can befall a busy guy, right?

Is it any wonder they want to disarm Americans?

They forgot Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick. You know, the lying thug with a bigger security detail than the governor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick#Criminal_charges