My, my, Capitol Hill is in a tizzy because Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) hadthe audacity to call a "K Street lobbyist" a whore, a former lobbyistfor Enron who now works to polish the turd that is the Federal Reservewhich was asleep at the wheel or in collusion with the Wall Streetperps who caused this financial meltdown. 

However, me thinks they protest too much.....the smell of hypocrisy, anyone?

The following from DownWithTyranny will explain the facts and the expose the laughable sanctimony of the jackasses and their phony piety.

"....Some things transcend partisan ID, political party, ideology and therest, not the least of which is the class solidarity of the stinkingInside the Beltway elite. Alan Grayson didn't say they should all belined up against a wall and shot; he probably wouldn't even agree withthat as an excellent way to help get the country back on a goodfooting-- especially because there actually are some good one in thelot. But one of those good ones is decidedly not Linda Robertson.

"Insidethe Beltway hacks-- even some relatively good ones, policy-wise, areall over Grayson for referring to Robertson, a lobbyist recently hiredas a public relations operative (or lobbyist)for the Federal Reserve, as "a K Street whore." None of the outragedand offended congressmembers-- who realize a charge like this is anaffront to all of their self-proclaimed senses of dignity-- cares todiscuss the substance of the claim. But she was, after all, the head ofEnron's lobbying office-- a position that defines the word "whore."

"Thecharacterization is a little too close for comfort for almost anymember of Congress, since so many of them are whores as well, takingimmense sums of money from the very corporations on whose intereststhey are legislating. Hence the outrage over Grayson's plainspokendeclaration. Robertson's current job is to paint a rosy picture of aninstitution, the Fed, at the heart of the near collapse of the Americanfinancial structure. A former close associate of Wall Street shillLawrence Summers and of bankster Robert Rubin, Robertson was alreadyblackballed for a job at Treasury because the Obama Administration wasstill trying to persuade people (and itself) that they didn't hirelobbyists.

"Now, you might ask, are all lobbyists whores? Well,maybe not a lobbyist for the Society for the Ethical Treatment ofAnimals or a lobbyist for a firm urging the beating of swords intoplowshares and spears into pruning hooks-- but that's not the kind oflobbyist Robertson has ever been. Pure and simple, Grayson hit thatnail on the head: she's always been a whore. Congresswoman CathyMcMorris Rodgers (R-WA) took Grayson's remark quite personally-- andfor good reason. Shrieking that Grayson "is out of control"-- one ofthe reasons why so many Americans love him-- she didn't mention thatshe sits on the Committee on Natural Resources (and it's subcommitteeon water and power) and has solicited immense sums of money (thinlyveiled bribes) from forest products companies, oil and gas companies,and electric utilities and, coincidentally, I'm sure, alwaysvotes in their interests and against the public interest. And if peoplestart calling lobbyists like Linda Robertson whores, how long beforethey start realizing that the Honorable Congresswoman from Spokane isalso a whore-- as are almost all of her colleagues.

"Of course it isn't only corrupt Republicans who found Grayson's candid assessment a little too close for comfort. The king of Democratic Party congressional whores, the Honorable Steny Hoyer, called the remark "inappropriate and unfair." Steny's office once asked me to interviewhim-- it was when he was running for Majority Leader and noticed I wasfar from a fan of his rival, Jack Murtha (another corrupt disgrace)--and only asked I observe one ground rule. "Please don't call him ashill or a whore." Ron Paul's legions,on the other hand, knew exactly what Grayson was talking about. If youdon't know about K Street whores, may I suggest you read a fantasticbook by Ken Silverstein, Turkmeniscam, the exposé on the relationship between lobbyists and members of Congress and those looking to buy congressional support."