A Republican's sex scandal exposes the media's evolving shrug toward congressional disgrace

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A Republican's sex scandal exposes the media's evolving shrug toward congressional disgrace

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Opinion: On Capitol Hill, the threshold for disgrace keeps getting lower, and as such the media decides it has bigger fish to fry, writes John Casey.

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