Oct. 29
Interesting tidbit in the softball article in the Post-Dispatch Sunday about former congressman Dick Gephardt. Gephardt is now a well paid lobbyist, among other things. And so where he once was for a resolution calling the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 genocide, now he's lobbying against it on behalf of the Turkish government.
As California representative Anna Eshoo said, "It represents a sea change in terms of position, but money does that." Yes, it does. Is it any wonder that people are so cynical about politicians and especially members of Congress? To paraphrase the old saying, money talks, and everything else walks.