From The Rolling Stone (Online)

The GOP just doesn’t get it.
The party is mired in the stench of K Street corruption. So who are the two men tapped to compete for Tom DeLay’s leadership post?

Let’s meet bachelor #1:
DeLay’s wingman Roy Blunt. The only problem with Blunt, as Bloomberg reports it, is that he “served as the Republicans’ official liaison to K Street. In one meeting at the Capitol last April, he rounded up some 200 lobbyists to talk with top Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, about the party’s agenda.”

And bachelor #2?
Ohio’s John Boehner. This quote from R.I.N.O. Representative Chris Shays of Connecticut says it all: “The problem John faces is that he’s so close to K Street.”

The Daily Show copy writes itself, doesn’t it?

These are the two guys running to replace Tom DeLay in the House Republican leadership. Here’s a little example of the shenanigans of these guys from The Washington Post:

Both camps this week have been pointing to the other’s well-documented connections and activities, some of which are the stuff of legends. They include Blunt’s failed effort to insert a provision benefiting Philip Morris USA into the massive bill creating the Department of Homeland Security and Boehner’s distribution of checks from tobacco concerns in 1995 to lawmakers on the House floor. Also of note are both men’s prodigious fundraising activities, some of which involve individuals and clients with ties to Abramoff.