Lobbying Colors GOP Leadership Contest
Boehner, the guy who handed out checks on the House floor from tobacco concerns, has just been elected Majority Leader. A fair chunk of his change was raised from Abramoff-linked Indian tribes. Not that it’s wrong that they’re Indians, it’s that they were working with Abramoff.
“We will want people who are clean running the House,” said Rep. Melissa Hart (R-Pa.), a Boehner supporter.
So do we, Melissa. So we’ll just have to elect them.
Do these people not get it? Do they not realize that the lobbying scandal taints everyone in their leadership? I guess this is actually good news for the Dems in Congress, who must be gathered somewhere giggling about how the mean old Rethugnicans screwed up again.
They used to be ruthlessly efficient. Now they’re just fanatically devoted to the Dope.
