Remember, this is the most ethical Congress EVER:

The headquarters of Murtech, in a low-slung, bland building in a Glen Burnie business park, has its blinds drawn tight and few signs of life. On several days of visits, a handful of cars sit in the parking lot, and no trucks arrive at the 10 loading bays at the back of the building.

Yet last year, Murtech received $4 million in Pentagon work, all of it without competition, for a variety of warehousing and engineering services. With its long corridor of sparsely occupied offices and an unmanned reception area, Murtech’s most striking feature is its owner — Robert C. Murtha Jr., 49. He is the nephew of Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has significant sway over the Defense Department’s spending as chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.

Robert Murtha said he is not at liberty to discuss in detail what his company does, but for four years it has subsisted on defense contracts, according to records and interviews. He said Murtech’s 17 employees “provide necessary logistical support” to Pentagon testing programs that focus on detecting chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, “and that’s about as far as I feel comfortable going.” Giving more details could provide important clues to terrorist plotters, he said.

Murtha said he does not advertise being the nephew of John Murtha and considers it “unfortunate” that some will unfairly assume Murtech received its federal contracts because of his uncle’s influence at the Pentagon.

Why yes, we would assume that he got the contracts because of his uncle. And it appears that would not be unfair to do so, despite how the Post bends over backwards to exonerate both Congressman Murtha and his nephew.

It’s entirely possible that the entire thing is on the level, we’re talking about King Pork Murtha, here. It doesn’t add up.

And besides, that’s really not the point. It’s the hypocrisy of it all. Remember how these same Democrats railed against no-bid contracts, such as those that were awarded to Halliburton? See, that was a bad thing, because that was Cheney’s old stomping grounds. Now that it’s a Democrat-connected company, it’s all good.

I’ve told you time and time again that Democrats have zero interest in getting rid of corruption in Washington. That’s because it’s their main business. They don’t go to Washington or run for office to pass good laws or to make a difference, they do it to gain power and get rich. They push an agenda and soak the rest of us whenever they can. It’s how they make their living.

In short, to quote myself from a few years back, “Democrats know all about corruption, because they wrote the book on it.” They ran on — and won because of it — a platform of cleaning up the corruption, of restoring ethics to government. What a joke.

For over sixty years (except for a few off years) the Democrats controlled Congress by overwhelming majorities, and the fraud and abuse that came out of there was unbelievable. When they got kicked out of the majority in 1994, they resented not being able to ride the gravy train anymore, so when even a hint of corruption in the Republican ranks appeared in the 2006 election cycle, they made that their issue, and people were fooled. I wasn’t. And you shouldn’t be, either. They weren’t upset that a couple of Republicans might have been making money on the sly, they were upset that it wasn’t them doing it. Basically, they were saying “Elect us and WE’LL show you how it’s REALLY done!”

Well, here we are, just over two years later, and boy, are they showing us what the old days were like. They’re heading for a repeat of 1994. Which is perfectly fine by me.