What an idiot you are Barone. The issue is money, not lobbyists. Characterizing the controversy as one about those who are hired to advocate is just one more example of the abject intellectual destitution of prostitutes in the media like you who specialize in selling mediocrity. It's the money, stupid. You're getting enough of it yourself by doing the exact same thing to know that. Give me a breakdown of how much money is being collected by a lobbyist from each of his top 10 clients and I will tell you how much democracy is being auctioned off in the process.