The Spotlight Should Be On K Street

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AS "Occupy Wall Street" sweeps up attention, a smaller group is running something called Occupy K Street. If the goal is to loosen the financiers' grip over the American economy, the folks protesting on K Street are getting closer to bingo. K Street is Washington's famous boulevard of lobbyist influence, the place where money buys politicians to do money's bidding.

Occupy Wall Street and allied movements have been likened to the tea party populists associated with the right. Both rage at the 2008 Wall Street bailout. Both resent the corporate powers' lobbying Congress to rig the game in their favor - the middle class and taxpayers be damned.

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The Spotlight Should Be On K Street

But there's a very big difference between these movements. The Occupy people want a more vigilant government overseeing financial activities. The tea partiers do not, oddly...

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