Oil and gas in the capitals

摘要

Defense of lobbyists."We know of no spectacle so ridiculous," wrote the great British historian,Thomas Babing-ton Macaulay (1800-1859),"as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality." Macaulay would have been perfectly at home in Washington,where moral indignation (and humbug) against lobbyists runs high in the midst of the "Casino Jack" Abramoff scandal.