Duke Nuked

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) pleads guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud, and tax evasion. The suburban San Diego congressman and former Vietnam ace has resigned from what is said to be one of the seven or eight best deliberative bodies in downtown Washington, D.C., will be sentenced in February, and must forfeit more than a cool million and a swank pad in Rancho Santa Fe. "I can't undo what I have done but I can atone," Cunningham says in an emotional press conference. Things began to unravel for Cunningham in June when the San Diego Union-Tribune reported on a shady deal wherein Cunningham sold his Del Mar home to a defense contractor at a vastly inflated price. Plenty of classic goodies, use of personal yachts, etc., followed.

Against that grim bill of goods, I'll just point out that Randy Cunningham took the Eagles to the NFC playoffs five times, something most of his accusers haven't even done once.

House Democratic Leader and world-class drip Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) decries the Republican "culture of corruption." (I decry Nancy Pelosi, but who's listening?)