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Senator David Durenberger (R., Minn.) ended the Senate ethics committee’s inquiry into his affairs by conceding that yes yes yes he’d bent the rules, and what of it? He spoke of “strains and vulnerabilities in my personal life.” He called attention to his “three decades of public service.” He said he had “acted, throughout, in good faith.” He pleaded that he’d “worked too hard on your public agenda to attend to my private one.” In short, he sounded just like. . . .





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