The purge: GOP pushed out on K Street

[Idealism]

Source: Politico

As the K Street partisan shuffle continues with major Democratic hires and headline-grabbing merger announcements, some firms need to do just a quick half-step or two to turn from red to blue.

Take the case of Timmons and Co., one of the oldest lobbying shops in town.

Founder William E. Timmons had been tapped by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to chair his transition team.

A veteran of the Nixon administration, Timmons is so familiar with what’s required in a transition that he sent a report to the Bush-Cheney team in 2000 that included how many paper clips they’d need.

But with McCain’s loss to Democrat Barack Obama, Timmons’ transition files are now tucked away and the office buzz has shifted to the room next door.

That office belongs to Martin Paone, the firm’s chairman and a soft-spoken, extraordinarily well-connected former Democratic secretary of the Senate.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15708.html

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Good, kick 'em to the curb

[AlCzervik]

1. He (Timmons) was also a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein.

[4lbs]

2. I guess that means McCain was connected to terrorists.

:sarcasm:

[AlCzervik]

3. didn't hear much about him the campaign did ya?

the lack of coverage about that pissed me off.

[Idealism]

4. More precisely, he's "Palling Around" with them?

I am shocked, shocked I tell you

[4lbs]

6. Next thing, they'll be saying that McCain wasn't even born in the US and thus shouldn't even be

qualified to run for POTUS!

;)

[Idealism]

7. Yeah when is that commie going to release his birth certificate?!

[Gman]

5. Now, about this "K Street Project"......

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

...and I believe you said something about a "permanent Republican majority"?....

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

[Idealism]

8. Was that Rove or Newt that spoke of that myth

[Gman]

11. The K Street Project was Grover Norquist and Tom Delay (R-Felon)

and the Permanent Republican Majority was Rove.

[Dover]

9. When does K-Street get kicked out of our government?

There IS no red or blue...there is only K-Street.

[High Plains]

10. Out with the old lobbyists, in with the new.

Change...ain't it grand?