Understood queenb...but that is what we indeed have now and I agree that something need be done differently and strongly would advocate for ethics reforms. Perhaps the best thing to do is to finally get term limits to reduce the ability of these lobbyists to buy the politicians.
Many of those relationships take years to form and become successful. The less time these creeps have in Washington, the better off we might be. I also think term limits would make it more about the job and the office and less about the elected official. Lastly we won't have to pay so many of them to run so many campaigns and more of them can focuse on actually working for us.