The K Street Oligarchs of the Cold War

Former aids to members of congress become handsomely paid lobbyists for the companies they were able help in their position on capital hill. These blow dried lobbyists, as one washington district rt judge calls them, wield far more power than most of the elected officials in town. The operatives who get the best tables at the capital grill where the power brokers lunch and sup the lobbyists have their own lockers there with personalized name plates. They dine on the fine aged beef you can see through a window that allows guests to gaze into the refrigerated meat storage area. It's these people make up the k street oligarchy that, despite all the vituperative rhetoric in recent years about campaign finance reform