Foxes Eager To Guard Henhouse
More on Santorum’s hypocrisy from Think Progress here and here.
Excerpt:
Santorum’s K Street WhitewashToday, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) denied that his Tuesday K Street Project meetings were designed to secure lobbying jobs for Republican congressional staffers and other loyalists. Santorum claimed the K Street Project “has not been about putting pressure on people to hire individuals. We never did that. We don’t do that and we wouldn’t do that.”
Apparently, he is the only one who is confused about what was going on at his own meetings:
And Santorum’s Tuesday meetings are a crucial part of that effort. Every week, the lobbyists present pass around a list of the jobs available and discuss whom to support. Santorum’s responsibility is to make sure each one is filled by a loyal Republican–a senator’s chief of staff, for instance, or a top White House aide, or another lobbyist whose reliability has been demonstrated. After Santorum settles on a candidate, the lobbyists present make sure it is known whom the Republican leadership favors. “The underlying theme was [to] place Republicans in key positions on K Street. Everybody taking part was a Republican and understood that that was the purpose of what we were doing,” says Rod Chandler, a retired congressman and lobbyist who has participated in the Santorum meetings. “It’s been a very successful effort.”The first step to recovery is acknowledging the problem. Santorum has a long way to go.
- tristero