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I was shocked once when a friend in Texas told me a Blue Dog candidate for Congress-- an eventual winner-- didn't really care about being a member of Congress as much as he cared about getting prepared for a career as a federal lobbyist.

To truly avoid a conflict of interest, the Boeing executive appointed acting secretary of defense would have to avoid many significant decisions, write Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung of Tom’s Dispatch.  By Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung Tom’s Dispatch The way…Read more →

James Comey used his position with the FBI to get a job as general counsel with Lockheed Martin, America's largest military contractor, and then collected $6.1 million in a single year in 2009.  He also was given at least 160,000 shares of stocks plus stock options, which are worth $30-million. [...]

A two-party race to the bottom (source)by Gaius PubliusAs one commenter noted after reading this news, "Well, that just says it all." My inner reply: Services rendered; services paid.

Tom Marino, the corrupt drug kingpin Trump wants to make Drug CzarWhen you look at the list of the 30 counties with the worst prescription drug abuse problems in America-- counties where people are overdosing and dying from opioids like oxycodone, hydromorphone, codeine and fentanyl, you are also looking at a list of the counties in the Trumpist heartland that elected Trump president of the rest of us.

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More than half of retiring Senators, and over one third of retiring Congress members from the House have this one profession in common.
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Hercules starting to clean a 1,000-cattle stable that hadn't been emptied in 30 years. Like the U.S. government, says Gary Hart.

Yesterday, Justin Amash celebrated Ronald Reagan's birthday with a tweet quoting his hero: "I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." Far be it from me to lionize the right right-wing icon, but on the occasion of his 104th birthday, I found a not completely unrelated celebratory quote (above) from 1985. It could have come from a Barack Obama speech as easily as from a Ronald Reagan speech-- or, even more likely-- from a Bernie Sanders speech.