Wicker does not deny pay for play politics

Roger Wicker has had a revolving door in Washington where lobbyists walk in with contributions and lucrative jobs for Wicker staffers, while contracts backed by our tax dollars walk out. The revolving door politics of Roger Wicker is being sadly defended as helping create jobs, but let us all not see the forest for the trees. Roger Wicker's revolving door is at its core is about self-preservation rather than service to Mississippi.

From the Fort Mill Times(SC):

Wicker, who was first elected to a U.S. House seat from north Mississippi in 1994, said Monday that Democrats are wrong to say he has been corrupted by Washington and that "somehow there is a quid pro quo in terms of contributions that I received."

Wicker said he has received campaign contributions from executives of companies in the state, but he said there's nothing wrong with that.

"The things that I've been criticized for have, in most cases, created jobs for Mississippians," Wicker said. (emphasis mine)

There you have it. Wicker does not deny the accusation. He instead characterizes it as a criticism that he defends by saying "but it was good for the state." John McCain is running his whole economic strategy, and I am using that term strategy term liberally here, on cutting government spending by Roger Wicker and his ilk. This is the corruption John McCain is talking about reforming, right here on display in Mississippi.