The revolving door

No bureaucrat left behind in this administration.

"Former education secretary Rod Paige and his former top aides at the Education Department have organized a consulting group to offer paid advice on policies they helped create and later enforced, including the No Child Left Behind Act."

They're calling it consulting rather than lobbying but the effect is the same. It seems to me we need to revamp the rules on profiting from government service. Perhaps if we extended the time frame to forbid any related work for ten years instead of only one, we might get some candidates that actually care about governing, instead of looking at serving in public office as a mere stepping stone to political profiteering.