Check your mail to see if you are invited:

An invitation sent by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to donors heralds the event at the Jones Day law firm on Capitol Hill at 5:30 p.m., just a few hours after Democrats are scheduled to pick their leaders for the next Congress.

  Jones Day’s partial client list, which, by the way, the firm has "been honored to represent for more than 10 years":

Abbott Laboratories

Alcatel-Lucent

Ameren Corporation

American Airlines

American Greetings Corporation

Amway Corporation

Apple Inc.

Bank of America Corporation

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

Bayer AG

Bombardier

Bon Secours Health System, Inc.

Bridgestone Corporation

The British Land Company PLC

Brush Engineered Materials Inc.

CBS Corporation

Cardinal Health, Inc.

Celgene Corporation

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

Chevron Corporation

Chrysler LLC

Citigroup Inc.

Continental Airlines, Inc.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

County of Los Angeles

Cumulus Media Inc.

CVS Caremark Corporation

Dell Inc.

Deutsche Bank AG

Developers Diversified Realty Corporation

Diebold, Incorporated

DIRECTV

Dominion East Ohio

Dresdner Kleinwort Limited

The Duchossois Group

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Kodak Company

Edison Mission Energy

Exelon Corporation

Exide Technologies

Experian

FirstEnergy Corp.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Frito‑Lay, Inc.

GenCorp Inc.

Genentech, Inc.

General Electric Company

General Motors Company

Georgia Gulf Corporation

The Goldman Sachs Group, L.P.

Goodrich Corporation

Hanson PLC

HCA Inc.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Husky Energy Inc.

International Business Machines Corporation

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

JPMorgan Chase Bank

KeyCorp

King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Lafarge S.A.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Lennar Corporation

Liberty Media Group

The Lincoln Electric Company

The Lubrizol Corporation

Macy’s

Mag Instrument, Inc.

MedImmune, Inc.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

Morgan Stanley Realty

NACCO Industries, Inc.

Nationwide Insurance Companies

Nikon Corporation

OGE Energy Corp.

Omnicom Group Inc.

Parker‑Hannifin Corporation

PepsiCo, Inc.

Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P.

Pfizer Inc.

Primus Capital Fund

The Procter & Gamble Company

Purdue Pharma, L.P.

Research in Motion Limited

Reynolds American Inc.

Rhodia

The Riverside Company

Royal Bank of Scotland Commercial Service

SanDisk Corporation

Sanofi-Aventis

SAP AG

SCANA Corporation

The Sherwin‑Williams Company

Simon Property Group, Inc.

The Southern Company

Sprint Nextel Corporation

Standard Bank Plc

SunPower Corporation

Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Texas Instruments Incorporated

TEXTRON INC.

The Timken Company

TNK-BP

TOTAL S.A.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Trammell Crow Residential

URS Corporation

Verizon Business

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Wireless

WL Ross & Co. LLC

The Washington Post Company

Wells Fargo & Company

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

  So, let’s see: among this honored list is a host of banks and financial institutions that were leaders in causing the economic crisis that cost millions of Americans their jobs and their homes. And this list is laden with a combination of oil, media, computer, drug, health care industry and telecommunications corporate titans who are not, shall I say, looking out for the best interests of the working person.

  Now, I guess Jones Day has some pretty nice digs, though I’ve never been. But, clearly, the location was chosen to try to keep the corporate dollars flowing to the DCCC, even as the House Democrats enter into the minority.

  And you wonder why we can’t get real health care reform, why the Wall Street reforms are simply papering over the deeper fundamental problems and not forcing a serious restructuring of Wall Street and the financial sector, why cutting corporate taxes is on the agenda, not raising them…

  The corruption continues.