Ho hum . . .

I think the saddest part of this story is that I don't think my outrage meter moved an inch (not that there's a lot of room to move). But still, what's it going take to pry the rest of the press away from the shiny bounce ball?

The Federal Election Commission has determined that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's unsuccessful 2000 Senate reelection campaign violated election laws by accepting $110,000 in illegal contributions from a committee Ashcroft had established to explore running for president.

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"Spirit of America PAC and Ashcroft 2000, respectively, violated the [law] by making and receiving this excessive contribution. Additionally, Spirit of America PAC and Ashcroft 2000, respectively, violated the [law] by failing to disclose the making or receipt of the excessive contribution," the FEC declared in a news release.

Shouldn't we have a higher standard for Attorney General? How bad have things gotten when this looks like small potatoes? How far have we come since Whitewater?

Sad. Very sad.

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Update: Great line from Good German, "Anyone remember when we needed a special prosecutor because Al Gore used the wrong telephone?"

Buddy, that was a millennium ago.