"It's like there's been a gigantic, smelly hair clog in a karma pipe somewhere (Frist probably flushed down one too many kittens) that's just now come loose, down in the sewers of Washington, and at long last it's flooding the city. Republicans will no doubt continue to wail about the criminalization of politics, faced with a truly remarkable array of investigations, indictments, and, well... felons. But if you don't want politics to become criminalized, the answer would seem to be transparently obvious -- don't commit crimes. Not really sure why that never occurred to them." - - - Hunter