Josh Marshall has written 18 posts on his site, since Friday night, on the Bernard Kerik scandal.

Eighteen. One-eight.

If all the allegations about Kerik are true, he's a bad man and shouldn't have been allowed in government at most levels. He shouldn't have passed the vetting and he shouldn't have been nominated for DHS secretary.

But eighteen posts?

One possible reason for the All-Kerik-All-The-Time treatment from the left: It's the only, real personal ethical issue they've had in four years coming out of the Bush Administration. By contrast, here's what they had to defend (or forget) the last time they had a favored candidate win the White House:

Vice President Al Gore. Nicknamed “the Solicitor-in-Chief” for his seemingly non-stop solicitation of campaign contributions from inside his government office, Gore wound up in hot water when he appeared at a fundraiser at a Buddhist temple. As a tax-exempt religious site, such a location should have been off-limits to such politicking. Gore claimed he was innocent and, besides, he said, there was “no controlling legal authority” against glad-handing Buddhist monks inside their own temple.

Janet Reno became Attorney General when nominee Zoe Baird (and then, later, Kimba Wood) was caught in a nanny scandal.

The Clinton Justice Department also had the embarrassment of Webb Hubbell, who admitted stealing from his former law firm before becoming the second-highest ranking official under Reno.

Mike Espy, Clinton’s secretary of agriculture, was forced out of office in 1994 when it came to light that he had repeatedly taken “gifts” from companies and lobbyists who fell under USDA regulation. He was later acquitted on more than 30 corruption charges after a federal trial. (One of the accusations against Kerik is that he wrongfully accepted gifts from someone who did business with New York City government while Kerik was an NYC official.)

Henry Cisneros, Clinton’s first HUD secretary, quit in disgrace after it came out that he had lied to federal agents about cash payments to a former mistress. In 1999, Cisneros pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI about the arrangement. (One of the allegations against Kerik is that he cheated on his wife.)

There are more comparisons that could be made. The late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown died a hero – in a plane crash in the Balkans on a trade mission for his country. But he was also under investigation at the time for some of his business dealings. Then there were then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's commodities dealings.

Oh, and that thing with the intern and, well, never mind...

Kerik lost out on a good job and is likely finished in government. But when compared to what was supposed to have been "the most ethical" administration in American history during the '90s, you can see how Marshall and others have been waiting, just waiting, for their turn.