Here's E. J. Dionne with one of those political commentaries that I think is right on the money.
One of the things we have to remember is that when a politician (any politician on any side) says, "This is an outrage," he or she generally only means, "This is an outrage when the other side does it, not when we do it."
When folks like Bill Bennett complain that America has lost its moral compass, and that they no longer express indignation over things that warrant it, I always think: That's because people like you have turned moral indignation into something that's only to be used to slam political opponents.