What is it about these people that when they leave office, that they can't get a real job, in real life?  I saw a blog the other day that had a link to a site which listed the number of lobbyists and earmarks a few years ago and the number today.  The lobbyist number quadrupled, and earmarks are off the charts.

Christie Todd Whitman now works with the worst polluters, the companies with the worst EPA records, and shows them how to get around the system, pollute and not pay their fines.  

You would think that these companies could pay their fines and clean up their messes.  But then why would they hire Whitman as their lobbyist?

The ombudsman for the Environmental Protection Agency says he was punished by administrator Christine Todd Whitman after he opposed an agreement to sharply limit the amount of money financial titan Citigroup -- a principal investor in Whitman's husband's venture capital firm -- would have to pay in a controversial Superfund cleanup case.

EPA ombudsman Robert J. Martin, who functions as the agency's public interest advocate, alleges that Whitman ordered his office reassigned within the EPA bureaucracy and stripped of its independence after he opposed a nuclear-waste cleanup settlement with Citigroup that would limit its liability to a fraction of the cleanup cost.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/01/14/whitman/

Whitman appeared twice in New York City after the attacks to inform New Yorkers that no threat was posed to their health by toxins released by the attacks, contrary to EPA's own conclusions that the levels of asbestos, dioxins, PCBs, and heavy metals released by the destruction of the World Trade Center were at horrendously high levels.  Whitman refused to release the information at the behest of the White House.

When Whitman left the EPA in June 2003, the number of officially designated smoggy days in the US was up by 32% and the completion of cleanup of Superfund toxic sites was down by 50%.

When Whitman was Governor of NJ, she went about lowering the taxes for the rich by raiding the pensions of the poor and middle class.  http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051219/OPINION/512190320/1032

Just because somebody is attractive and speaks well doesn't make them good people.  American voters really need to learn this.