For those who don't regularly read a newspaper that carries George Will's column (and I suspect you are many . . . I get him in the esteemed New York Post), today's column, on democrats now opposing campaign finance reform, begins as follows:

"In 'Murder in the the Cathedral,' T.S. Eliot, a better poet than moral philosopher, has a character says,
'The last temptation is the
  greatest treason
 To do the right thing for the
  wrong reason.'

Actually, in Washington it is good enough when people do the right thing for *any* reason."

Will has other fish to fry, and probably didn't care much, in this context, about Eliot's point: the "treason" at issue is not against the persons affected by the action -- most of whom presumably benefit from "the right thing" -- but rather against the actor, whose moral state is Eliot's concern.

Ah, well; thought y'all might find it of interest.

Tom K