Posted on 05/04/2009 9:22:31 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Gee, I thought that the Democrats were supposed to be the transparent party. Guess not. You see this whole cap and tax plan being pushed by the President and written by Congressman Waxman is being ghost written by lobbyists. That promise President-Elect Obama made at the beginning of his administration that their would be no lobbyist influence on his presidency was just a "Media Moment.
Joe Biden's Chief of Staff was is a former lobbyist at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers Ronald Klain. David Axelrod, chief campaign strategist for his campaign and the president's senior political adviser is a lobbyist too. Axelrod was not registered as a lobbyist but that's only because he operates in Illinois, a state with lose rules about registering as a lobbyist.
But the use of lobbyists in preparing the cap and tax plan goes right at the heart of government "corruption" because these lobbyists who are writing the bill are also making "exceptions" to the legislation, freeing their clients from having to pay the cap and trade taxes:
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Casablanca/Claude Rains moment....insert here.
Casablanca/Claude Rains moment....insert here.
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