It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

Courtesy of WSJ's "Opinion Journal":

Measured in terms of profligate spending and a malleable ethics process, the Republican majority today is not so different from the Democratic majority it replaced. The ordinary idealism required to transform an opposition minority may not square with the extraordinary exercise of power in a ruling majority.

Why anyone should expect anything different (or why anyone should assume that they are on the side of the angels) is beyond me.