It's only a matter or time before some teabagger or Repug does the same thing.
One would hope that the struggle required to acheive high office would be a vetting process and a weeding process , winnowing to the sidelines those who have too little self disapline to carry out their dutys with decorum (and may we even hope) wisdom.
Why does it seem sometimes quite the opposite?
Such that there is more bizzare behavior expected from the congress than from a randoml;y selected number of ordinary Americans.
Is the job so stressfull and the requirement so peverse that the job is not attractive to normal or superior persons?