Here's your chance Democrats

The trumpeted GOP reform plan is as empty as the suits they wear. Jack Abramoff could operate very easily within it.

It's the kind of reform James G. Blaine would embrace.

From the Washington Post (and not by Sue Schmidt):

According to lobbyists and ethics experts, even if Hastert's proposal is enacted, members of Congress and their staffs could still travel the world on an interest group's expense and eat steak on a lobbyist's account at the priciest restaurants in Washington.

The only requirement would be that whenever a lobbyist pays the bill, he or she must also hand the lawmaker a campaign contribution. Then the transaction would be perfectly okay...

...A third major area -- campaign finance laws -- would go untouched, an omission that amounts to a gaping loophole in efforts to distance lobbyists from the people they are paid to influence.

Anything that members of Congress can now do in the pursuit of money for their reelections will still be permitted in the future -- including accepting lobbyist-paid travel and in-town meals -- unless campaign finance laws are altered.

That's actually no fucking reform at all. The Democrats plan is coming out today, I hope it doesn't have a hole big enough for Dennie Hastert to walk through. Have a plan that closes this hole and point it out, point it out loudly.

Culture of Corruption indeed!