A Lack of Shame

"With all this talk of budget gaps, the biggest deficit among our nation’s political leaders appears to be in shame." Chuck Collins, The Shame Deficit

I read this article several weeks ago and pulled this quote out - the focus was on the budget (and still should be), but I was thinking how appropriate it was in a broader sense as well for all that has happened in the past couple of weeks.

The blazen exploitation of a family tragedy, the reckless and violent talk directed at the judiciary, and now the political opportunism of some congressional leaders trying to score a few points with Catholics in the wake of a holy man's death - and all the talk of a "culture of life" and the President himself saying something about the strong needing to stand up for the weak - and now shall we take a look at that budget again? - that guts healthcare and other life-sustaining services for vulernable people, that threatens natural life and our future by eviscerating environmental protection programs, that hangs a heavier yoke of debt on my generation and those following me, that perpetuates arrogant militarism and endless war....

Would someone please explain to me how these folks became the spokesmen (no need to be pc here because they are mostly men) for "moral values." There really is no end to the shamelessness of it all.