I’m with Jonah on this one. It’s a snoozer.

Big interests pay big bucks to DC middle-men to work their magic on

congresscritters. It’s been going on since the founding of the

Republic, hasn’t it? I’ve always been puzzled to know who decides,

and how, where “influence buying” ends and plain old bribery starts.

Whatever, it’s all part of the political fabric & there doesn’t seem

much point in getting worked up about it.

Abramoff gamed this little system for his own profit, taking the

moolah but not delivering the goods. Isn’t that the kind of reptile

that’s bound to show up once in a while in this particular swamp?

Zzzzzzz.

If the story has political legs, it’ll be because some name politician

stepped over that invisible-to-me line. And perhaps because the

American public doesn’t realize, or occasionally realizes but then

forgets, the scale on which this lobbying game is played.