Democrats campaigned on the warnings that Republicans were too beholden to special interest groups to do anything positive for the American people. If that was true, then what does this say about the Democrats?

The campaign coffers of the new Democratic House committee chairmen have seen a big jump in contributions from lobbyists and special interests since the Democratic takeover of Congress, according to new campaign finance filings available on PoliticalMoneyLine.com.

In some cases, Democrats in powerful posts are raising more money from special interest groups than the Republicans they replaced.

Well, they did promise to do things better than Republicans…