"We get the best K Street useful idiots money can buy."
Posted on 02/26/2008 7:51:28 AM PST by ZGuy
Former Republican National Committee chairman — and the man who reportedly advised President Bush in early 2001 not to regulate carbon dioxide — has switched sides and is now being paid to lobby for greenhouse gas regulation on behalf of the eco-activist group Environmental Defense.
According to Greenwire’s John Fialka (Feb. 21), ED board member and hedge fund tycoon Julian Robertson is putting up the cash to hire DC lobbying powerhouse Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Ken Mehlman and former Democratic congressman Vic Fazio will lead Akin Gump’s efforts. "Their first mission is to find the right political formula to attract the 60 votes necessary to overcome a likely filibuster threat [of climate legislation] in the Senate," reported Fialka.
In addition to advising Mr. Bush against CO2 regulation, during the 2004 presidential contest, Mehlman told the Toledo Blade (Aug. 31, 2004) that, "If the U.S. had ratified the Kyoto protocol to reduce ‘global warming’ as Mr. Kerry advocated, the U.S. would have lost 1.4 million industrial jobs."
The one thing that can be said for Benedict Arnold — as opposed to Mehlman – is that at least Arnold didn’t go traitor for the cash.
Lobbyists… yuck.
Any relation to Forrest?
Dimmer brother.
He will be very successful. Polticians will pas everything he wants.
The problem isn’t with these lobbyists, it’s with consumers.
People apparently have no problem at all paying thru the nose for energy. People aren’t bothered with gas, heating oil, natural gas and electricity rates going up 5-15% per year.
There is no consumer outcry so energy will continue to cost more.
Larry “Bud” Mehlman has more integrity than Ken Mehlman.
Mehlman on the otherhand is a lower that whale poo.
They make a nice couple...
“at least Arnold didn’t go traitor for the cash.”
He did it for a promotion, and the resentment at not having received one. So there was a personal gain element with Arnold. It’s not like he simply decided he was a “loyal Englishman” one day.
Report to Detail Accused Madam's Records
...ABC said a legal secretary at the Akin Gump law firm was suspended after telling her bosses that she had been secretly working as one of Palfrey's escorts. ABC did not name the woman, who told Akin Gump she expects to be a government witness in the case.
It’s the money, stupid... follow the money.
I believe that, in addition to the perks you mention, the British also paid Arnold about what today would be a little over a million dollars.
Why you damn stupid idiot!? I just hate this fraud!
I’ll go green for the green
There is so much money going into alternative energy today that it is becoming the next big bubble. I myself am making a lot of money on these transactions, and big financial firms have now put enough into startup money into AE companies that they NEED to get this legislation in place.
The coal, oil and nuclear companies now have to deal with competition for the government tit that they used to have all to themselves.
Ken Mehlman sold his soul for silver and gold...
Cap and Traned = Facisim
Cap and Trade,,,, sheesh more coffee please.
Ah, record snowfalls don’t matter. Moonbat answer:
“Climate is not Weather.”
Mehlman seemed to me to have a lot of Lindsey’s character traits...
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