K Street

Senator Santorum is "distancing" himself from the K Street project. The job opening memos won't be circulated at high-level meetings with lobbyists anymore. If making an official corruption scheme slightly less official is supposed to fix the problem, hopefully the Republican Congress has another thing coming. I hope they can't get away with it by just saying, "well, we don't do the K Street project at high-level meetings anymore." That is roughly equivalent to saying they won't take travel reimbursements from lobbyists anymore--they'll just get an envelope full of cash under the table every now and then to cover their costs. The Republican culture of corruption is a cancer on the government and a cancer on the future prosperity of the country.