Oh the poor lobbiest!

The Washington Post details the upheaval in the wonderful world of Washington power politics. Here's my favorite paragraph:

The Democrats' takeover of Congress this month has turned official Washington upside down. Labor and environmental representatives, once also-rans in congressional influence, are meeting frequently with Capitol Hill's incoming Democratic leaders. Corporations that once boasted about their Republican ties are busily hiring Democratic lobbyists. And industries worried about reprisals from the new Democrats-in-charge, especially the pharmaceutical industry, are sending out woe-is-me memos and hoping their GOP connections will protect them in the crunch.

If schadenfreude were one of the seven deadly sins, and it should be, all I can say is I hope Satan can hold up his end of a conversation and serves good port.

But this following observation insulates me a bit from that danger.

In fact, lobbying overall is likely to increase. "With a closely divided Congress, you're going to have both sides spending more," said Kent Cooper of PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan research group. "It will be like an arms race."

In other words, the Democrats will now start feeding at the same trough.