Congressional Lobbying Reform Sham

A NY Times editorial reminds us about the lobbying reform sham going on in Congress:

"One of the shabbiest shell games under way in Congress is the attempt to convince voters that lawmakers are curbing their corrupt relations with power lobbyists."

Unfortunately they get it wrong by putting most of the blame on the Republicans:

"The political ghosts of Mr. Ney and Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, should haunt this Congress and its Republican bosses for their disgraceful refusal to end the Capitol’s embrace of the lobbying industry."

Bottomline:

"A more responsible Congress would ban lobbyists as political money bundlers, as well as the proliferation of lawmakers’ relatives as lobbyists and the Capitol junkets catered by lobbyists on corporate tabs."