Let’s all go to the lobby
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Cap’n Ed has some fresh, steaming “Beliefs We Can Believe In!”, Obama’s 17 exceptions to his iron-clad, chiseled-in-stone, “I’m Purer than Thou” “Absolutely NO Lobbyists!”- Rule:
Why do we have to go to the Times of India to hear how many exceptions to this rule Obama has invoked? If the Bush administration had publicly imposed such a restriction on itself and then quietly ignored it, we’d hear endless editorials about Bush’s hypocrisy and the influence of the rich and powerful on his administration. We heard exactly that when Dick Cheney assembled a group of advisors, without government positions or enforcement authority, to help him build an energy policy during the first term. Some watchdog groups went to court to force Cheney to reveal their names so that they could make that exact point.
But Obama appointing lobbyist after lobbyist to government positions, with enforcement power, despite his promise not to do that at all? Crickets chirp among the American media. I guess they’ve outsourced their Truth-to-Power divisions to India.
It’s been a few days, so there’s probably more than 17–I’ll google it up in the foreign press.
Just wonderin’, though; if you make a rule and then issue 17 exceptions, which one is the rule…and which one is the exception? And is there a rule for that, too?
If there is, Lightworker McPorkulus will have an exception for that rule, too. He’s just precious and special that way.
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