The LAT off-leads a deep look into the not-so-deep psyche of disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif. Cunningham came to Washington as a war hero, succeeding a predecessor who was plagued by scandal, and leaves in handcuffs. What's striking about him, the story says, is his brazenness: "Honest graft" has become the norm on Capitol Hill (as Michael Kinsley pointed out in his recent Slate column), but whereas other lawmakers bend the rules on the sly, Cunningham deposited checks for tens of thousands in bribes in his account at the congressional credit union, and partied on a defense contractor's yacht christened, in his honor, the "Duke-Stir." The paper speculates that some of his below-decks mischief may have gotten him in trouble with his wife, and that that in turn may have led to his sudden need for "the lavishly furnished mansion … to make things up."
one just has to wonder, with such brazenness, how nobody noticed until now this was all going on.
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