DUKE UNPLUGGED….This is too rich. According to Time, disgraced Republican congressman Duke Cunningham “wore a wire at some point during the short interval between the moment he began cooperating with the feds and the announcement of his guilty plea on Nov. 28.” And of course there’s this:

The identity of those with whom the San Diego congressman met while wearing the wire remains unclear, and is the source of furious ? and nervous ? speculation by congressional Republicans.

As well it should be. It just makes all our liberal hearts go pitty pat, doesn’t it?

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