It’s nice to know some things don’t change.

Members of our state Legislature and some of their staff are showing up in handcuffs.

Why are we not surprised. This is the same gang that decided to vote themselves a pay hike in the middle of the night and thought nobody would be upset by it. After all, that’s just the way things are done in Harrisburg.

The subsequent pay-grab revolt rocked the capitol. Some long-entrenched members of the Legislature actually were voted out. Others saw the handwriting on the wall and left of their own accord.

Eventually, things calmed down, and the Harrisburg folks went back to business as usual. Sure, there was lots of talk about “reform.” A few measures were passed, including a much-needed improvement to state open records laws.

But this is still a group that too often uses the public treasury as its own feeding trough.

Last week Attorney General Tom Corbett announced charges against a former House Dem leader, Mike Veon, as well as a sitting member of the House, and 10 staffers.

It’s the usual grab-bag of “Harrisburg hustling.”

No-show jobs, work for at least one guy’s mistress, and workers on the state payroll whose main job seemed to be doing campaign work. It’s often jokingly said that the primary job of a politician is getting re-elected. These guys apparently took that literally.

Corbett says he is not done. That he expects more people to be charged, and that, contrary to his critics, he is not simply targeting Democrats in an election year.

We’re not surprised. This is Harrisburg, after all. Like we said, some things don’t change.