At What Point Do We Stop Calling This An "Administration," And Start Referring To It As A "Criminal Enterprise"?

Via The New York Times, we learn this morning that Dr. Lester Crawford, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration who resigned for cryptic reasons last fall after less than three months in office, is facing criminal investigation by a federal grand jury for improper financial transactions and false statements to Congress.

Between Congress and the White House, the GOP is fielding an impressive list of criminal suspects. Just off the top of my head:

1. Majority Leader Tom DeLay - indicted for breaking campaign finance laws
2. V.P.'s chief of staff Scooter Libby - indicted for perjury in the CIA leak investigation
3. Ex-chief of procurement at OMB, David Safavian - indicted for obstruction of justice and lying to authorities in connection with a federal investigation of the Abramoff corruption
scandal
4. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham - convicted of taking $2.5 million in bribes, and if we're to believe Harper's and the Wall Street Journal, participating in a prostitution ring run by
lobbyists at the Watergate Hotel; the FBI is apparently investigating several other
congressmen in connection with this too, it's unlikely that Cunningham was the only one
5. Former Rep. and current CIA Director Porter Goss - possibly being investigated by FBI for participating in said prostitution ring (all right, this one's speculative, but fun to think
about no?)
6. Deputy chief of staff Karl Rove - still facing possible indictment after his 5th visit to the
Fitzgerald grand jury this week.
7. Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist - under investigation by the SEC for securities fraud

And this doesn't even cover the Ohio "coingate" scandal, the indictment of Illinois' last GOP governor, and criminal trials under way in connection with the GOP/NJ phone jamming case, which may eventually lead to the White House itself.

So, I repeat: at what point do we stop referring to the GOP as an ordinary governing party, and start calling it what it is: a massive criminal enterprise whose nefariousness is only matched by its apparent sloppiness and incompetence?

UPDATE: forgot to mention that yesterday the Ohio Election Commission formally reprimanded Ohio GOP Rep. Jean Schmidt for violating campaign laws by falsely claiming that she had two college degrees, when in fact she has one. That reminds me of that other funny GOP appointee at NASA who I blogged about earlier, who falsely claimed he had one college degree when in fact he had none (and was in charge of "policing" the statements of NASA's Ph.D scientists).