Bogus ‘Reform’

• April 26, 2006, Midnight

Did we miss a surge in public approval of Congress that enables Republican leaders to think they can blow off serious lobbying reforms this year? Or do they think that, notwithstanding a dismal 23 percent Gallup approval number, voters are so inattentive that they will accept anything labeled “reform” as a real change in the way Congress and K Street go about their business?