Earlier in the year, when the Jack Abramoff scandal was still in the news, Larry King interviewed those famous reporters that uncovered Watergate: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein.

Here's Carl Bernstein:

Larry: Carl, what is going on.

Carl: The system is corrupt, thoroughly corrupt.  It's become corroded.  The legislative system in the Congress and the state legislatures is subject only to money.  And what the Founder's intended to be a citizen legislature is an oligarchal legislature today. It is a plutocratic legislature today. Unless money is involved, forget about the public good.  And if money is involved, forget about the public good.  The system isn't working.  It's not about Jack Abramoff.  He's just the example of what happens when you take it as far as it can go in terms of how toxic it can become and how the evil of what happens when money determines what goes on in our political system.  Abramoff is reflective of it.  It goes all through this administration.  It goes all through the other administrations.  Who's in the White House doesn't matter ultimately.  It's the Congress of the U.S. and they're no longer responsive to the people.  They're responsive to money.