Standing In Line

Libby Copeland: Comes now the newbie, the freshman senator, the bean counter with a nose for following the money. And at the moment she's following it -- not big money, not earmark money -- down a marbled hallway on the Hill to the poor schlubs who are paid $10 an hour to stand in line. In the morning, well-paid, sharp-suited lobbyists arrive and glide into the Senate hearing rooms, taking choice seats that the schlubs saved for them by waiting all night.

Money polluting the rivers of democracy once again!