This Week: K Street Goes to Redmond!

Michael Kinsley has a witty column in Slate about K Street and the lobbying culture. My favorite part:

Shortly after I arrived in Redmond (after two decades in D.C.), I got a phone call from a well-known Washington figure who had just left the White House for a K Street law firm. Hey, it was great to talk to me. He missed me in D.C. He was really sorry we'd been out of touch, he said. Very eager to hear how I was doing out here. Happy to have grabbed this chance to catch up. And, by the way, he felt awful, for my sake and for the country's, about the beating a great company like Microsoft was taking, and he would love to be able to help. Could I put him in touch with someone?

I couldn't, but here's the kicker: I had never met this man in my life.

Comments

[Jason Ligon]

Never seen the show
D. C. Insider I'm not
K-Street - a boy band?

[Curt Warner]

OK, TMQ!

[Jason Ligon]

TMQ has that effect on me from Tuesday until about Friday. I've been working on a haiku-ish way to ask Rooney for some cheerleaders in Steeltown, and this one came out instead.

[Douglas Fletcher]

It's fun being important.

[Curt Warner]

Jason:

Nice. Good luck w/that.

[Hovig John Heghinian]

A famous journalist, who appeared on a famous CNN political debate show for ten years, claims he never met a [nameless but supposedly] famous Clinton aide?

Unlikely.

The better part of the article was Microsoft's realization that graft exists in America. Just like Gates's "gift" to the NYC schools (in the previous post here on Hit & Run). Maybe the US government should ask why people hate them so much.