You know what's happening right now on the Hill, right? Lobbyists that congress members hadn't heard from in years are calling "just to check in". Democratic congressional staffers are being taken out to dinner and for drinks by people who, by all accounts, they agree with, but whose money ain't clean. Half the long-term Democratic staff has one foot out the door and it's aimed at K-Street.
We're the good guys for now, folks. But all it takes is one friendly lobbyist on our side to sell out to oil or insurance, and all of a sudden, that friend who used to work down the hall is slipping in an earmark to the subversion of the American interest. It's going to happen. It is happening right now as we speak.
These aren't bad people. They fight for things like abortion rights and environmental clean-up. But the entire money dynamic in Congress just shifted and it won't be long before the bad Democrats are whoring themselves for causes we can't support. Fair warning.