Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street’s influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts.
The new policy — issued with little fanfare this fall by the White House ethics counsel — may turn out to be the most far-reaching lobbying rule change so far from President Obama, who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to get jobs in his administration and to negotiate over stimulus contracts.
“who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to get jobs in his administration and to negotiate over stimulus contracts”
with the exception of former employees of Goldman Sachs and NY Fed chairmen.
I’ll believe that Abomina isn’t a bald-faced liar, and a sissy coward to boot, when I see evidence thereof…
On a slightly related note but more off-topic than related, see the documentary called “OUR OWN PRIVATE BIN LADEN“.
very informative
Oh, BFD, Brad, BFD. At this point, he’s got so much heinous stuff to his “credit”, even if he’s really knocking them off and not letting more back in, BFD. And he’s not kicking them off campaign donations or from holding powerful government appointments, so, BFD, BFD, BFD.
Any plus is a plus. Let’s hope there will be more to come.
Yes Yes Yes Yes! These are steps in the right direction. I still think the best recovery would be a mass infusion of money to the Middle Class. Not the lower or Upper Class just the Middle. Upgrade the people and the economy with a large scale American investment. Companies are the ones that will win in the long run and the people will be the ones with the money to create the proper industries we desire. Bottom up not Top down.
What an important step. We are a country of people, who created and work and run and own companies to produce products for living and other non essential joys of life.
Maybe they should start with AIG?!
This is a nice PR attempt to make people forget about the recently released fact that a huge percentage of the visitors to the White House since the start of the administration were health insurance representatives.
The slightest commotion from this and he’ll cave and rescind. I’m disgusted with his lily-livered approach to governing. He was raised as a peacenik white kid. I’m sorry I didn’t realize how easily he’s led by everybody in the name of comity.
As always, be sure to read the fine print. From the link you posted:
The people who hire the lobbyists and tell them what to lobby for will still be allowed. What’s the difference really?
The Tea Party patriots should be shouting for joy! Right?
99: Would you prefer him not do this? Sheesh!
Google “obama lobbyists federal advisory boards” and let me know what page you see ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or FOX on:
http://www.google.com/search?q=...l=en&sa=2
Danny
I would prefer him to take a long walk off a short pier.
I would prefer he do his job, uphold his oath.
I would prefer he took Monsanto executives out of the FDA and Raytheon executives out of the Pentagon.
I would prefer he wore a testosterone patch so he could use his political capital to rouse the people to rip the fascists out of our government.
Failing all that, I would prefer he shut up.
Bad Day, 99? It took us years to get in this mess; there is no possible way one man can wave his hand and make it all better.
I agree with 99 but I am willing to wait until the second year.
Yeah, well, he could at least try to wave his hand to make it all better instead of working so hard to keep it worse. He wouldn’t necessarily have to be prevailing at keeping his oath as long as he was keeping it. I don’t expect him to be godlike. And even if the candyass capitulator can’t see his way clear to keep his word, I expect him to keep his oath, live up to the trust the people placed in him to that extent anyway, even if he doesn’t succeed in fixing everything. But noooooooo. We’ve got bubkes on our side in the White House.
Thanks, deecee, but there are a heck of a lot of innocent people being blown up, citizens being spied on, going homeless, going hungry, going dead while plutocrats dump their liabilities and fatten at the trough… and humans languishing in hell and corrupt, torturing bastards still free and mercenaries getting rich and… while we’re waiting for him to man-up and do his job. So I think the stakes are too high to be giving him this much slack.
… I guess I’ll go stick my head in a bucket of ice water now….
I also agree with Agent 99.
Obama has been spineless. This latest lobbyist ban seems to be a meaningless gesture that doesn’t really change anything.
Most of the people voted for “change we can believe in”. Well I’m stupefied as to what has actually changed…hell we’re not even moving in the direction of change.
Change starts on day one by rescinding Bush-Cheney’s executive orders that violated our privacy, demobilizing in Iraq and Afghanistan, holding the Bankers and Wall Street accounable for this economic mess…
When Obama voted for immunity for the telecoms I knew then he was in on the fix too.
To say I’m supremely disappointed in Obama would be a huge understatment…he’s had 11 months, he can’t go change the world in that time…but dammit he could at least start the car.
Obama=Clinton….they speak great words…all the while he’s stabbing us in the back and doing the Bankers and Military Industrial Complex’s bidding…
Beware the power of a powerful orator…
I guess his campaign slogan should have read:
Change…comes slowly, I read the fine print.
Prediction…Palin/Cheney (42%), Nader (5%), Obama (38%) in 2012.
Isn’t this upcoming week slated for his capitulation to General McMeth? Disappointed in that spineless used car salesman doesn’t begin to cover it. I’m livid, and would certainly spit in his face were I presented with the opportunity. We need someone in the Oval Office who holds dear the American people’s interests – the obscenely wealthy don’t need any help, they are perfectly capable of lying and stealing their own way to prosperity, it’s the commoners who need representation. Abomina is worse than duhbaya purely by virtue of his glossy packaging. We need an honest person as our leader, we don’t need a dood who can drain three-pointers. Wake up, america! It’s time to surround the White House, sit down, sing a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant, and not budge until the man starts doing his job, the job we elected him to do. Time’s up, already!
Change we can believe in?!
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com...or-november-28
“The mainstream media and Democratic Party HQ connected websites seem to be busy trying to divert attention from the President’s determined assault on our civil liberties via renewing and extending the Patriot Act.”
Michael Moore put out a brilliant OPEN LETTER to Obama, preceeding his announcement of more troops to Afghanistan. Hope he reads it.