It isn’t just Orrin Hatch who’s taking money from Diageo liquors. The Every Republican Is Crucial PAC took a check from the Diageo PAC in August, a few weeks after the Republican Operation to Secure and Keep a Majority PAC took Diageo’s whiskey-scented cash.

The latest incarnation of this game will be played at Verizon Center on Tuesday, November 29. No, I’m not talking about the match between the Washington Capitals and the St. Louis Blues. I’m talking about the matchmaking that will be going on in a luxury box where Cliff Stearns will be meeting with lobbyists who are paying money to his re-election campaign in exchange for access to the Congressman.

If passed and ratified, a proposed constitutional amendment would end the legal status of corporations as persons, and stop the current practice of unlimited independent congressional campaign funding with money that comes from undisclosed sources. Many Democrats in Congress have done a lot of talking about taking a stand against the idea of corporate personhood. Now that they have the opportunity to take concrete action on the issue, what are they actually doing?

There are only 75 individual contributions to the 2012 re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Rob Woodall. Six of those 75 contributions have come from Pull-A-Part executives. The chances of this happening randomly are absurdly small.

Lobbyist Henry Ryan isn’t one of Farenthold’s constituents. He lives in Washington D.C., not Texas. So why is Ryan giving money to Blake Farenthold?

Roy Blunt was in South Carolina meeting with members of the 1 percent, the upper crust financial elites who treat members of Congress as portions of their great estates. The 99 percent of Missouri were in Saint Louis today, marching from Kiener Plaza from to the Justice Center.

U.S. representatives who voted in favor of the Coal Residuals Reusal and Management Act took, on average, more than twice as much money from electrical utilities than representative who voted against the bill. Coal money was even more strongly correlated with the vote. Representatives who voted to approve H.R. 2273 took, on average, seven times as much money from coal mining companies.

Yesterday, Bob Latta introduced H.R. 3185, legislation that would provide a special exemption that would allow electric power plants to violate pollution standards in order to keep more money in their accounts. It strains credulity to assert that it’s only a coincidence that Latta’s top sources of money would profit from Latta’s proposed new law.

Independent Women’s Voice describes itself as “non-partisan”, but absolutely none of the independent expenditure spending Independent Women’s Voice has been for the benefit of a Democratic candidate.

A list of the top Republican recipients of money from the Communist-colluding ConocoPhillips, which spilled huge amounts of crude oil into Bohai Bay this week, and gives its workers a mere pittance compared to its cash hog CEO James Mulva.