Michael Winship: Lobbyists Retreat But Never Surrender

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"Lobbyists Retreat But Never Surrender"

By Michael Winship

George Washington's birthday is approaching and with it will come the attendant mythology: hatchet and cherry tree, wooden teeth, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River – or the Rappahannock.

Of course, as the old joke goes, a dollar went a lot further then. Today, if you tried to hurl a silver dollar across t...