Poor appointments not limited to the White House?

Apparently, Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has been tapped by fellow Republicans to draft legislation to tighten up restrictions on lobbyists, in response to the recent Jack Abramoff scandal.

However, according to this article from the Philadelphia Post-Gazette, Sen. Rick Santorum has also received more money from lobbyists in the current election cycle than ANY other congressional candidate up for re-election in 2006.

Time and again, the foxes are picked to guard the henhouses by this Administration, and now it appears that the Congress is happy to do the same thing.

(I wrote a post a number of months back detailing a number of such appointments by the President, and now there are quite a few new ones, in another dubious use of "recess appointments" by President Bush. Perhaps I'll write them up sometime this weekend.)

By the way, so as not to be accused of only reporting negatives about Republicans, the number one recipient in the House of Representatives, and sixth over all in Congress, is Democrat Jack Murtha. But, of course, this post isn't about who got how much, it's about picking someone who benefits from the system to draft the new rules CONTROLLING the system. If Murtha had been picked to draft the laws, I'd be just as skeptical.

Liam.