"Yes, I do get frustrated dealing with the left hand of the IQ bell curve."
That is nobody's fault but your own and trying to blame others for you choice to take it out on others is even worse.  Now about here I'd usually make some suggestions on how to actually advance a discussion in at least a helpful way but you are far more interested in defending your irrelevant point than actually participating on the topic of the article or comments. A quick search shows NO ONE, not the article nor any other commenter here has, mentioned lobbying or lobbyists until you piped up.  Everyone else is talking about Russian OFFICIALS and AMBASSADORS.  Before the expected false equivalence lobbyists have to register and are regulated by law unlike Russian OFFICIALS and AMBASSADORS who typically have diplomatic immunity.
You're free to soapbox but don't blame others for your ineptitude/unwillingness to get the point.  And don't expect me to waste any more time responding to your off-topic drivel.