The extraordinary (and loathsome) executive powers bequeathed to President Obama by the Bush-Cheney cabal could, I believe, be put to excellent use in ridding our fair city of lobbyists, once and for all. Consider the following scenario. At 2 pm on a weekday a fleet of black SUVs pulls up outside the Palm Restaurant, disgorging a horde of black-suited, black-booted, masked, armed and helmeted men. They enter the restaurant and grab every lobbyist in the place, in mid-cigar, and hustle them into the waiting SUVs. The captives are then whisked off to some unknown destination in the Virginia suburbs, where they are held incommunicado (and deprived of martinis) as illegal enemy combatants. It should be unnecessary to repeat this scenario more than once or twice before every remaining lobbyist takes the next plane out of town. With "mission accomplished", the captives could be released a few at a time, during lunch hour on L Street, wearing orange jump suits with "LOBBYIST" stenciled on the back.