From TNR, How K Street evil genius Haley Barbour devoured Mississippi. An interview with Kim Long, author of The Almanac of Political Corruption, Scandals & Dirty Politics. Beyond DeLay: A look at the most corrupt members of Congress. Business Week goes Inside the Hidden World of Earmarks: How company spending on lobbyists can pay off. From Wiretap, political gold diggers abound. But what are PACs, what do they want and how do they affect us? A review of Mudslingers: The Top 25 Negative Political Campaigns of All Time by Kerwin Swint. Once again, bigfoot media are crafting bogus narratives that will distort the candidates and the entire presidential campaign. This is the quixotic dilemma of any attempt to “critically analyze” presidential politics: everyone already knows that the campaign is a glorified horserace, and everyone already knows that this horserace is a wee bit totally jury-rigged.
