What the country needs is 50 more prosecutors

As lobbyist and GOP operative Grover Norquist told National Journal ten years ago, "What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs. Then this becomes a different town." From the May issue of The New Republic PATRONAGE, BUSH-STYLE. Wages of Sin by Jonathan Chait Post date 05.11.05 | Issue date 05.16.05 Bush's big-government conservatism represents the coming to fruition of a Republican strategy ten years in the making. When the GOP took control of Congress after the 1994 elections, it undertook an ironclad alliance with the business lobbyists of K Street. The most famous aspect of this alliance was the K Street Strategy, the successful Republican campaign to force business donors to abandon their traditional bipartisanship and instead hire from and donate to the Republican Party exclusively. Read more at The New Republic