Meet your lobbyists.

I saw Thank You for Smoking right around the time of my America: The Calendar "Meet Your Lobbyists" daily entry.

(Money given in 2000: $112,188,449 but only on a contingency basis.)

It was pretty good, to a point.

(Represents: Themselves... and very well, we might add.)

And then it got a little trite. But then it got better again.

(Recipients of their largesse: Let's see, who amongst our nation's lawmakers might have interest in the law...)

I wish I could lobby. I couldn't debate my way out of a paper bag. Well, maybe a wet paper bag.