When liberal Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein wrote a lengthy, biting blog post this week about Evan Bayh’s various post-Senate professional undertakings, my reaction to Klein’s post was: “Good. This is right. Hopefully Klein and other liberals will see how standard this is, and thus develop more skepticism about lawmaking in general.”

But conservative Post blogger Jennifer Rubin had a different reaction. Rubin defended Bayh’s cashing out to lobby for a K Street firm and work for a private equity firm, presumably providing political intelligence. There’s quite a bit wrong with Rubin’s post, and I hope no conservatives follow her conclusions.