{First, let me acknowledge that this phrase is from the Rachel Maddow Show, just in case they have it trademarked already.  I would also say that this article may have some truthiness, and give Steven Colbert credit for that.}

The question constantly being posed across the MSM at this time, sourced from the limp Republican Party, is that given the numerous scandals, how is this Administration reflective of the change Obama promised during the campaign?    To answer this question, every day one can go to the Rachel Maddow Show and watch the segment about "Scrub. Rinse. Repeat."  This segment serves to reveal things that were kept hidden for eight years, or were ignored for eight years, or were described as good, but which we now find was probably not such a good idea. 

The things kept hidden for eight years are so numerous I am unable to list them all.  I started a thread once to try and gather these things into a single place, but it did not get much traction.  For examples of hidden, I suppose we can go with the breadth of the illegal wiretapping, which is truly breathtaking.  My paranoid self says, everything is saved and catalogued from practically everyone at this point.  If there is a company offering to forward voice mail as an e-mail to another device, if the technology is so common that common people can have it, the government probably has it too.  Couple the inexpensive value of computer memory and the old myth that they were recording conversations with specific words and the myth gets closer to probability, if not reality.  Maybe they are only saving those conversations? 

Ignored things would include torture.  People on TPM were up in arms about torture, but the Bush Administration was pretty much ignoring it having redefined the deeds with new verbiage and dismissed further discussion of the topic until just prior to their departure.  There are other examples of things ignored.  I would guess we could expect more bridges to fall if the stimulus package fails, and we can ask why the SEC had so few Bloombergs too. 

Finally, those things we thought we good.  You're probably already screaming at the monitor.  Oh yeah!  Tax cuts!  Trickle down economics!  What good did we ever get from those?  We got nothing from them, if you are like me and have never seen a six figure salary.  It would appear that those who benefitted from these perks took their money off shore.  Like Cheney and Halliburton, they simply have other priorities. 

What is similar today to suggest this country has not changed, since it appears we are still subject to scandals?  If one is looking at the past problems, there was a theme throughout that is obvious when looking back.  The point is that all these problems are looking back.  The change is that we do not allow these things to develop in the first place.  When we find them we clean them.  Daschle and the others are not eight year stains on this Administration.  All they have done is actually brought shame on themselves and they were identified BEFORE they formally entered the Administration. 

It feels like we are not getting patronizing spin from Team Obama.  We are not insulted with outlandish descriptions that defy what we see with our own eyes while they perpetuate their lies.  We see an Admnistration willing to call things what they are, and willing to show us what they are, without deciding that it is better to hide the truth and live a lie then to reveal what things are.  We are not being protected from harsh realities like children that one assumes cannot handle the truth.

To sum this up, the difference is that we simply wash, rinse, and repeat now.  Things get dirty.  In Washington, DC, only an idiot would think it could be any other way.  It's like those folks screaming about how Obama is letting the Clintonites into the White House.  They were half the freaking party when Obama was a community organizer.  But now we can clean these things up while they are fresh.  We handle these laundry issues promptly so that the item is cleaned and we can, actually, wear it again.  This is what is really good, that we have saved the fabric by acting promptly, no more scrubbing! 

Previously we simply put another item over the top of the dirty one, and then another, and another, until we were like Charlie Brown in the middle of winter, unable to move.  Now that we have realized this is not actually good, although it was sold to us as such, we are trying to clean the dirt, which is now a stain, and we can hope, because that is really all we have left, that we will be able to save the fabric.  It seems more then likely that had we acted sooner, while Bush was in office, we could have.  If were up to TPM, we would have.  Now, despite all our best efforts, things are not so clear, but to be sure, we are not accumulating nearly as much dirty laundry as we had before things changed, and yes, they have changed and things are very different.