Monday, February 25, 2008

Well, at least somebody's making money...

What better way to wake up than to learn that lobbying revenues in Washington increased 9 percent in 2007 compared to the prior year. The weekend web posting by The Hill will be followed up tomorrow by a full list, but its look at the top ten for 2007 is an eye-opener.

Old-line firms Patton Boggs and Akin Gump topped the field, each up in the range of $6-7 million at $42.7 and $32 million respectively. Must have been American companies investing more to keep the in new Democratic majority: a strong trend was seen in formerly Republican firms going bipartisan, including BGR Holdings, which slipped in at number 5 overall with $22.7 million.

BGR Holdings is the new name, of course, of Barbour Griffith and Rogers, the shameless sludgebuckets who decided that representing an opposition leader in Iraq in the middle of a U.S.-led civil war was somehow patriotic.

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