CAN WE DO THIS WITH CONGRESS?

(Thanks to queensbee)

Comments

[Siouxie]

Yes we can.

[Brian]

Where will they put the bananas?

[ArcticAl]

Only if we cut off their hands too.

[Wes S.]

Even that won't work. They'll just find somebody else to collect the bribes and payoffs for them.

Like maybe the Washington Post,for example:

For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few": Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

With the newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said in a staffwide e-mail that the newsroom would not participate in the first of the planned events — a dinner scheduled July 21 at the home of Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth.

The offer — which essentially turns a news organization into a facilitator for private lobbyist-official encounters — was a new sign of the lengths to which news organizations will go to find revenue at a time when most newspapers are struggling for survival.

And it's a turn of the times that a lobbyist is scolding The Washington Post for its ethical practices.

Found via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. So much for the notion of an "independent press..."

[Wes S.]

And to clarify my above post: You don't think at least some of that money collected by the WaPo will get kicked up to the politicians themselves? And buying favorable news coverage of one's political opinions and lobbying efforts is itself just - as the credit card commercial says - priceless.

[Coconuts]

Hell -> Handbasket, here we come.

[queensbee]

it isnt really pockets that are so bad where congress is concerned.... in their case, could be zippers! and that goes for you governors as well!

[Horace LaBadie]

Like you cannot stuff money in a waistband. Or you should not.

[JayP]

Congress would find a way to turn them into pantsless pockets.

[Margaritaville]

I think they might confiscate their underwear too.

[nursecindy]

For congress I think the only solution would be making them buy the pocket less pants and then supergluing the pants to them. For an extra precaution super glue the zippers shut.

[Spiny Norman]

I think they might confiscate their underwear too.

Sandy Berger, is that money in your shorts, or are you just glad to see us?