After 12 years in control, the Republicans who took power with Gingrich promising to sweep out a calcified and ethically bankrupt Democratic leadership found themselves perceived as becoming what they had tried to expunge.

• 在掌权12年后，当初因金瑞契承诺扫除僵化和道德破产的民主党领袖而风光掌控两院的共和党发现，他们本身竟也变成他们当初力拒的德性。