Exactly!

Glenn Reynolds hits the nail right on the head:

NEWSDAY: With Rash of Scandals, Trust Is Gone. “In Congress, prominent members such as House Ways and Means chair Charles Rangel, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson are either accused of malfeasance, officially charged with corruption or already convicted. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been accused of multiple acts of corruption, including extorting cash or jobs for filling President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. All of this is creating a growing sense of mistrust. But then Americans have always been suspicious of big institutions that can exert a lot of power.”

So how about a little more suspicion of government expansion disguised as “stimulus?”

It never ceases the amaze me, the cognitive dissonance between watching the growing parade of government officials accused and/or convicted of wrongdoing, while watching Americans call for ever-more government involvement in their lives. You'd think people would figure out it's the very concentration of power they're handing to D.C. that breeds the temptation to corruption.