A Constitutional Right to Thievery and Deceit
All you need do is A) be a member of Congress and B) keep all the paperwork of your misdeeds in your Senate or House office, including the computer.
The Black Hole of United States government, a legislator’s office. Perfect. Jack Abramoff’s mistake for his clients was to have an e-mail address outside those hallowed halls and thus a record of two-way communications. No more. It’s a bit more cumbersome, but selling legislation has just gone from the Internet to the back room.
Legislators are comfortable there. Back rooms most famously disappeared at National Conventions, where the guy (or gal) they committed to pretty much got there by way of State Primaries. But nearly all partisan legislation is based on midnight meetings of the select. So it’s not as if anyone in Congress has has to look very far to retrieve their talent for the clandestine.
Who would have guessed that, just when we needed it, another Jefferson would come along to uphold and support our sagging Constitution. This one i…