More for the bonfire.

Former Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA) was one of the "principal authors" of the Medicare prescription drug bill, according to the Washington Post. And a mere two months after the bill passed, PhRMA (the drug industry trade association in Washington) offered to make him their chief lobbyist in a deal that "would [have been] the biggest deal given to anyone at a trade association," one source told the Post.

There was such an outcry over this that Tauzin did the right thing and delayed taking the gig until later in the year.