The Muck Gap

Okay, it’s the unreported political story of the year: the GOP’s ability to dominate scandal news even while in the minority. Usually, the majority party, with more power and money, takes the scandal cake. It’s almost an iron law of politics. But whether it’s lobby shop or the restroom, the GOP has so far been able to reverse the historical tide, maintaining a decisive muck advantage even in the political wilderness.

In fact, the Muck Gap remains so great that we even caught CNN (see today’s episode) yesterday trying to fudge the numbers to make muck seem more bipartisan than it is.

We run the numbers in today’s episode of TPMtv …