TPM Muckraker's "Tribute to the Fallen"

[Fenris]

Well, the American people certainly gave a what-for to scandal-plagued incumbents last night, as their votes and the media's exit polls showed. At least nine mucked-up politicos from the Schemin' 109th got strapped to a raft, metaphorically speaking, and pushed out to sea by an angry electorate. For us rakers, it's a bittersweet moment.

Some we will miss: Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL), who lost her kamikaze bid for a Florida Senate seat, won't be around when we need her anymore. Also missed will be the Entertainer himself, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), who lit up our days and spiced up our nights with paranoid conspiracies and FBI raids. It's true, Curt: not only are they all out to get you, they just got you.

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We will miss the beater-and-choker crowd, namely Reps. Don Sherwood (R-PA) and John Sweeney (R-NY). Though our tastes run to the more complex and refined scandals, spousal abuse holds our attention, especially when folks attempt comical cover-ups.

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Of course, we saved a few words for those who couldn't be with us today but are certainly here in spirit: former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R), whom history may well view as the kingpin in one of the most diversely corrupt Congresses of modern times; former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), whose prediliction for pubescents ruined whatever chances the GOP had of saving face in these midterms; and former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), the only sitting congressman from the 109th to be sentenced for a felony. And of course, one of our patron saints, former Rep. Duke Cunningham, still living off the taxpayer, only now in an orange jumpsuit.

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