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Is beyond the It scopeof the discussionhere to cataloguethe numerousunsubstantiated claims or to critique these two massivepolemics of Barlett and steele, which add up to little more than one-sentence paragraphs asserting the same general and unproven theme over and over-that Congresspasses every tax statute, bankruptcy law, and labor law, for the sole purpose of benefitting "the privileged, the powerful and the influential . . . at the expenseof everyone else."76 this description sounds like an exaggerationmerely to If provide a strawman for the argument that journalists are obsessed with the crudest version of the interest group model of policymaking, the reader is referred to the third part of the serieswhich is based upon the singular premise that "congress has stood for the rich" and thus has enacted "laws and regulations crafted for the benefit of special interests."76 other journalistic accounts adopt a similar interest group model, although it is seldom as crudely expressed by