Lott and Breaux Open Bipartisan Lobbying Firm (WP)

Just what the country needs..more political lobbyists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403609.html?nav=rss_politics/congress

Former Senators Say They Will Confront the Gridlock That Grips Congress

Former senators John Breaux (D-La.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.) are opening a new, all-in-the-family lobbying firm, saying the capital and its corporate suitors are "yearning" for bipartisan solutions to gridlock.

Revealing what had been one of the worst-kept secrets in town, the senators said in an interview that they would officially launch the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group next week, with both their sons and Lott's former top aide joining them.

Breaux and Lott, who together have more than 70 years of experience in the House and Senate, first talked about such a partnership decades ago when they lived across the street from one another in Annandale. The families remain very close, with Chet Lott and John Breaux Jr. serving as groomsmen in each other's weddings.

The professional marriage had been assumed a foregone conclusion among K Street insiders since Lott announced Nov. 26 that he was retiring from the Senate less than a year after starting a six-year term. Days later, Breaux announced he was leaving the large lobbying firm Patton Boggs to form his own small shop.

out of business.

All the way from wacko conservative to knee-jerk reactionary. They will do very well, I'm sure.

That, not gridlock, has been the problem during the past 7 years.

They both belong to the War Party of Cheap Labor Conservatives.