With pols away – Washingtonians can play

Bashing Washington and Washingtonians is a favorite fall sport for politicians. We are the whipping post for senators and congressmen and now, of course, the two presidential candidates.

Let’s put aside the fundamental hypocrisy of such rhetoric. Nah. Let’s pound it home: How can John McCain and Barack Obama make sport of running down Washington when both are creatures of Washington and its culture? If Washington is corrupt, as they say, then both are captains of corruption by association. Both deplore the cronyism of the capital city. Both need to look no further than their top staff to find members in good standing of lobbying firms and think tanks who supply us with our best crop of cronies.