The systemically questionable ethics practiced in government and politics in the swamp that is your nation’s capital from where I happen to be writing this are far more malleable than the ethical standards others are held to in any other sector in America. Also, the Pope is Catholic and bears….well, you know.

For example, here in the swamp it is apparently just fine for a lobbyist to be a member of a governmental decision-making commission that makes recommendations on the very issue the lobbyist works on. Being paid to lobby and implement the policy you lobby for seems like something that would raise some red flags. It is impressive that some have figured out how to game the system by lobbying and deciding on issues that help them accomplish their lobbying goals.

This is on my mind both because in between my own (entirely ethical) meetings and so forth here in DC today, I was reading a recent piece by my friend Robert Hornak in PJ Media where he gets into this very thing with the fascinating example of Kim Glas, “who by day serves as the president and CEO........

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