From the Washington Post: Jeffrey Birnbaum decries the weak lobby reform bills and the seeming unwillingness of the Republican Leadership to enact anything at all - even the weak bills passed by the House and Senate. He's not alone. "Initially, I worried that Congress would do this bill too quickly and that it might not be as well-thought-out as it needed to be," said Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which had partial jurisdiction over the legislation. "That fear seems ludicrous now." However, Collins also placed blame on the advocates of lobby reform. The lack of powerful public backing for the legislation has prompted recriminations. "The advocates of reform utterly failed to mobilize public support," Collins observed.