Up to a Point: In Defense of Lobbyists

A NOBLE PROFESSION

P.J. O’Rourke explains why Washington’s despised influence-peddlers are freedom’s last line of defense.

Published Oct. 25 2014 6:55AM EDT

articles/2014/10/25/up-to-a-point-in-defense-of-lobbyists/141024-orourke-lobbyist-tease_gxv1r1 — Emil Lendof/The Daily Beast

Lobbyist. The very word sends a shudder through every upstanding citizen who believes in the dignity and gravitas of American government -- as if George Washington were being pictured naked, lowering himself into a bathtub full of live squid.

Stand down, upstanding citizen.

P. J. O’Rourke

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Up to a Point: In Defense of Lobbyists

P.J. O’Rourke explains why Washington’s despised influence-peddlers are freedom’s last line of defense.

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P. J. O’Rourke