Which comes first, the arrogance or the office?

Yet another elected official has admitted to an extramarital affair, this one complete with a bastard child, in addition to the drunk driving arrest that started all this. "My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry," said Vito Fossella, a Republican, who has three children with his wife in Staten Island, N.Y. "While I understand that there will be many questions, including those about my political future, making any political decisions right now are furthest from my mind. Over the coming weeks and months, I will continue to do my job and I will work hard to heal the deep wounds I have caused," he said.

Rico says he wonders if you have to be totally arrogant and self-absorbed to want to be a politician in the first place, or is it learned on the job?