Remember the presidential campaign promise & pledge to change the way business is done in Washington? One of those promises being, in particular, to eliminate lobbying?
Turns out that the legion of lobbyists is growing during the Obama administration. After all, there is now more taxpayer money than ever floating around ready to be snagged by most favored contributors. Sheila Krumholz of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit spending-watchdog group, says it's virtually impossible to keep special interests out of the stimulus-funding equation. "The administration has the will to try to curb the influence of lobbyists," she says. "It's just not as easy as they thought." [Personal thought: How naive. BHO may lack quite a few presidential experience skills, but being well-versed in the lobbying jungle is not one of them. He was & is well aware of his deceitful game to dupe his wide-eyed fans.]
Indeed. Even the ACLU (think that they are without lobbyists in DC?) has a thought about such attempts. Following a White House memo barring lobbyists from speaking with administration officials about stimulus projects and requiring written communications to be posted online, the American League of Lobbyists (ALL) and the ACLU called the new rules "an ill-advised restriction on speech." (Reported by Parade, 5/3/09, p. 14)
Who would have predicted that BHO would be receiving an evil eye from the ACLU? Let the games begin!
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