Abramoff/DeLay -- update 1-15-06
Just quickly, to follow up on my Abramoff post of a few days ago. National Public Radio's John Ydstie had an excellent piece yesterday on
Weekend Edition about Tom Delay's efforts--called the K-Street Project--to put a Republican stamp on lobbying in Washington. K Street, by the way, is the Washington home of many interest groups, and it is often used as shorthand to signify the whole culture of lobbbying in DC. Listen to Ydstie's well researched and interesting segment
here. He provides the background that helps you understand how a man like Abramoff could amass the power he did in the first place, and why reform will be so hard to enact.