[JohnnyZ]

Payment for services rendered. I'm sorry, but there is no amount of spin that Billy can come up with to hide the fact that he sold out the American people for this job offer.

Absolute BS, and you should be ashamed for parroting the DNC line. Tauzin had another $1m+ offer from the music industry. He didn't need Medicare legislation to make lots of money as a lobbyist.

[Pern]

Absolute BS, and you should be ashamed for parroting the DNC line.

I don't 'parrot' anything. This is obvious 'back door' politics at its best.

If this is BS, then why is it every time a politician decides to 'return to private life' he/she always has a golden parachute to break their fall? It's simple, while pretending to look after our (the good people of La.) interests, he was setting up his own retirement fund.

Like I said, a Louisiana politician at his best.

[steve-b]

Tauzin had another $1m+ offer from the music industry.

So, your argument is that all a crooked politician needs to do to immunize himself to criticism is to sell out to two different special interests?

[BlessedByLiberty]

Think PeLousy will ask for an investigation into DasHole's wife and the lucrative airline contracts? Or ask the DasHole's to release their tax records?

No, guess not. Wonder if anyone will ask to see Ms Pelosi to reveal all of the real estate limo and other business interests she and her husband are involved in San Francisco and how that clouds her decision making and how those connections might make her retirement plans more lucrative?

No guess not.

[GeneD]

It wasn't the music industry, it was the movie industry. He had an offer to replace the ignoble Jack Valenti at the MPAA but turned it down because it didn't pay quite enough. This Uriah Heep of a congressman further believes Jack is God's gift to humanity. And let us not forget the ranch business either. Billy Tauzin looks like a used-car salesman, and he has ethics to match.