The Washington Post reports on Roy Blunt: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Blunt and DeLay are fundraising powerhouses. Their political organizations use multiple fundraising committees, have rewarded family members and have provided an avenue to riches for former aides now in the private sector.

In Missouri, the Blunt organization is a family affair. His son Matt, 34, is governor, and his son Andrew, 29, is a top state government lobbyist whose client list is studded with major donors to his father.

Here in Washington, Blunt has converted what had been an informal and ad hoc relationship between congressional leaders and the Washington corporate and trade community into a formal, institutionalized alliance. Lobbyists are now an integral part of the Republican whip operation on par with the network of lawmakers who serve as assistant whips.

This a photograph of the congressman at a podium literally covered in money comes from his own website. Well, Republicans are very good at staying on message, after all.

Right, his name is Matt. - Guystav M.

Posted by  Anonymous @ 3:19 PM

 

DeLay and Blunt are a WHOLE LOT worse than Scorsese and Dylan. Scorsese documentary on the early Dylan years, "No Direction Home," was on PBS the other day and was so good that I just went out and bought the DVD. Fascinating stuff. - Zimmerman Man in UT

Posted by  Anonymous @ 5:42 PM

 

Republicans are good at staying "on message" all right. They are even better at staying "on mess!" - Just look at the Iraq mess

Posted by  Anonymous @ 10:06 PM

 

According to MSNBC, conservative Republicans complained to Hastert that Drier was not conservative enough and Hastert caved. - GUY

Posted by  Anonymous @ 10:12 PM

 

"Caved" was my word, not MSNBC's, by the way. - GUY

Posted by  Anonymous @ 4:02 PM

 

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