FoxNews: Greed and Noise and Tom DeLay (Surprising considering the source)

[Robbien]

LOS ANGELES — "I did a good job," Tom DeLay said Thursday in his farewell speech to the House of Representatives. "I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years. The K Street project and the K Street strategy I am very proud of."

At least Republicans will have to finally stop denying its existence.

The K Street Project was the business of forcing the big corporate lobbyists to hire Republicans and donate to Republicans if they wanted to do business on Capitol Hill. For years, the boys used to claim that it really didn't exist. Just a figment of overactive Democrat imaginations, they used to say. Guess again.

K Street is the stretch of Washington populated by expensive restaurants frequented by fat cat lobbyists and the members and staffers who feed at their trough. But it is not simply a place, but a way of doing business.

Don't have an office on K Street?

Don't have a lobbyist who represents you with an office there?

And you wonder why Congress doesn't work for you? You don't own a piece of the rock ...

Tom DeLay is too arrogant to lie. He couldn't resist taking credit. Of course it existed. Now they can fight about who invented it. At least not Al Gore.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199038,00.html