Ruth Marcus: “Steve Ricchetti is a once and, no doubt, future lobbyist. So it was inevitable that Vice President Biden’s decision to hire Ricchetti as a senior adviser would prompt howls about Obama administration hypocrisy. After all, it had pledged to keep lobbyists out of its White House, and now it was bringing in one of the city’s top you-know-whats.”

More from USA Today, which endorses the ABA Task Force on Lobbying’s recommendations, including a ban on lobbyist fundraising. [Disclosure: I was a member of the Task Force.]