How could McCain help in Washington? He's already admitted he doesn't understand econoomics. McCain seeks to delay debate Candidate plans to return to Washington Thursday to deal with credit crisis...a McCain senior adviser. According to the source, McCain wants to create a "political free zone" until a deal is reached on legislation for a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. --MORE--

Former Abramoff lobbyist, Hill aide indicted 27 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A one-time congressional aide who went on to work with jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been indicted on public corruption charges. A 10-count federal indictment unsealed Monday charges Kevin Ring, 37, with conspiring with Abramoff to corrupt congressional and executive-branch officials by giving them things of value...

...No. 4–How to Wrap Gifts in Dollar Bills If you want to be a successful plutocrat, you have to perfect the art of the hostess gift. Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, is a master of the form and has developed her own signature specialty. She wraps her thank-yous in sheets of real dollar bills, purchased from the Bureau of Engraving. In this clip...

Biden's Son Employed in Profession Obama Disdains: Lobbying Timothy J. Burger Sun Aug 24, 1:11 AM ET Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama's speech announcing his running mate Joe Biden singled out the...to accept their contributions. In his speech yesterday in Springfield, Illinois, Obama said he's running in part to repair ``a government that has fallen prey to special interests.'' --MORE--

August 22, 2008 By Patrick J. Buchanan Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as...campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 — pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili. Read more...

The New York Times August 14, 2008 In Split Role, McCain Adviser Is Sometimes a Lobbyist By MICHAEL COOPER When Senator John McCain led a Senate investigation three years ago of Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who later pleaded guilty to fraud charges, Mr. Abramoff’s old firm turned to a former McCain campaign adviser for help. The firm, Greenberg Traurig, which had quickly cut its ties...

...to talk about it! WTF is So Ji Sub doing not being in a drama since then????? He got out of the army ages ago. *curses the perpetually delaying TPTB of Cain and Abel* In other news, I finished Lobbyist !!!! Happy ending!!!! EEEEEEE! EEEEE!!!! I also loved that Maria went back to her good-hearted self. And the end with her being a teacher and Harry being there. I died. But that last phone call...

I did a giant picspam of ep 4 of Iljimae And am still fixated on Lobbyist And rediscovered the awesomeness of Robbers And again Finished MISA Did a picspam of my fave scene in A Love to Kill

Am on ep 16 of Lobbyist . Amused to report that the trend of having Harry mistreated in every episode continues. Seriously, writer, must you really put your ID so visibly on the screen? In other news, Maria/Harry is still totally awesome. Though... What kind of an insane woman, when she has the undying devotion and complete dedication of a man who looks like Song Il-Gook goes sleeping with VIPs...

Clearly, nobody wants to talk about Robbers . Too bad :) Once I get back, I plan to marathon it, so brace yourself. But for now, I am continuing with Lobbyist and have just finished ep 13. OK, first: this has to be the first drama to max out even my capacity and like of h/c! Seriously. This makes Time between Dog and Wolf seem like nothing. Even I have gotten to the 'this is just making me...