More dawdling in Washington

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/060105/associations.html

Hill rats feel the pinch

Gosh, times have changed when even industry trade association

lobbyists are getting outsourced and downsized. It's not

enough to buy the US Congress – you gotta buy Congress

on a shoestring and with the fewest employees possible! Maybe

K Street guys should shut down their pricey offices entirely,

forget trying to argue public policy on the merits, and just

have the campaign contribution checks wired in from

Shanghai and Bangalore.