Lying Cheating Scum. They're everywhere. Sitting next to you at work. Laying beside you in bed. Pleading for your vote. Take Denny Best, a funny and charming Washington lobbyist who drinks for a living. He knows lying to your friends, buying people, and cheating on your wife are bad, but drifts toward them anyway. Denny is assigned to bring down Congressman Mansfield - ambitious, depraved and on the move - running for U.S. Senate and seducing young female staff along the way. In one week during the historic political year of 1994, Denny and Mansfield lock horns, with Newt Gingrich's takeover...

I don't know why, but for some reason people find my one-two boilermaker punch of Kerouac and Hawkeye Pierce somewhat amusing. I'm a real prize. I lost my glamorous job as a professional drinker, I mean Washington lobbyist, after I won the war but lost the battle with a Lying Cheating Scum. The Wife kicked me to the curb, down the street and all the way out of town. Now I'm back in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the Bedford Falls I thought I had escaped. Just to prove I lost my mind, I go and fall for some sob story about a kid with leukemia and her family going broke, from a peaches and cream siren...