Vin Weber?!?
He’s a great guy. One of Newt gingrich’s crew back in the day.
Now he is in the business that Thompson was in and Guiliani was in.
It seems that if lobbying was anathema ... well, we’d have more serious issues with every other campaign before this one ...
Hey, it’s Romney who’s the one out there acting like lobbyists are demons, even though they’re some of his good friends and associates.
Doing what? Pimping NAFTA, while Sipping Champagne on the CFR internationalist love boat?
He’s a great guy. One of Newt gingrich’s crew back in the day.
IIRC, Weber left the House in disgrace after being caught red-handed in the check kiting scandal.
Isn’t the point of our better structure of communications to be able as ordinary folks to know about all of these connections and keep an eye on them? Why not post all information about all such connections for all candidates, just so we know who’s maneuvering about what? Almost all ex-members of Congress become involved in lobbying and it is common for firms to have both Dems and Republicans but what’s new is that we can keep an eye on it, so why not do so? The leadership we need to get independent in energy, for example, which we have yet to see, would definitely unplug Chavez, so if Governor Romney exhibits that leadership we will know that this connection is not doing us harm and if another candidate exhibits that leadership we will know that he is not being had. It would be nice if we saw some of that leadership before the election. We certainlly haven’t heard much but conventional wisdom from “expert” advisors so far from any candidate. Romney has been particularly notable for his absolute such conventional wisdom to date, even making the politically conventional mention of that strategically blind boondoggle, ethanol.