21 Replies to “Obama Revokes Stringent Rules for Lobbyists [Dan Collins]”

1. Joe says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:08 am

   Rules Smules, there is money to be made. Opportunity to be found.

2. Bob Reed says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:15 am

   Ah, laissez le bon temps roulez..!

   Once again, the most Ethical! administration-enah! doesn’t fail to disappoint…

3. Joe says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:19 am

   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ east, the rush is on.
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ East, the rush is on.

   Big O left Chicago in the year of 2004,
   With Dennis Alexrod, his partner, and the rest of their flunkies, too.
   They crossed the Potamic River and found the bonanza gold.
   Below that old white capitol just a little south of Baltimore.

   Big O crossed the isle to the conservatives far below.
   He talked to his team of sycophants as he mushed on through the BS.
   With the stock market reeling wildly in the land of the unlimited cash,
   Yes, Big O was a mighty man in the year of 2009.

   Where the river is winding,
   Big nuggets they’re finding.
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ East, the rush is on.

   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ east, the rush is on.
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ East, the rush is on.

   Big O turned to Dennis with his gold in his hand,
   Said: “Deniss you’re a-lookin’at a lonely, lonely man.
   “I’d trade all the gold that’s buried in this land,
   “Even for a woman like Michelle who is sporting arms that look like hams.

   “‘Cos a man needs a woman to love him all the time.
   “Remember, Dennis, a true love is so hard to find.
   “I’d build for my Michele, a veggie garden.”
   “Below that old white capitol just a little south of Baltimore.”

   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   Way back East, (East To K Street.)
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ east, the rush is on.
   East to K Street,
   They’re goin’ East, the rush is on.

4. N. O'Brain says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:37 am

   The Democrat culture of corruption rolls on.

5. JD says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:50 am

   Didn’t he rail on this for a couple years, then promptly ignore it once he implemented it? One might suggest that this is yet another example of how dishonest these fuckers are, but that would make one racist.

6. sdferr says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:53 am

   There are always rules. It’s just that the rules may not be the rules made up by people, though people may recognize those rules not made up by people.

   …great Hector was first to speak. “I will-no longer fly you, son of Peleus,” said he, “as I have been doing hitherto. Three times have I fled round the mighty city of Priam, without daring to withstand you, but now, let me either slay or be slain, for I am in the mind to face you. Let us, then, give pledges to one another by our gods, who are the fittest witnesses and guardians of all covenants; let it be agreed between us that if Jove vouchsafes me the longer stay and I take your life, I am not to treat your dead body in any unseemly fashion, but when I have stripped you of your armour, I am to give up your body to the Achaeans. And do you likewise.”

   Achilles glared at him and answered, “Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall and glut grim Mars with his life’s blood. Put forth all your strength; you have need now to prove yourself indeed a bold soldier and man of war. You have no more chance, and Pallas Minerva will forthwith vanquish you by my spear: you shall now pay me in full for the grief you have caused me on account of my comrades whom you have killed in battle.”

7. Bob Reed says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:56 am

   So, imagine that…

   Now eeeeeevil, filthy, lobbyists, you know-the ones that were the root cause of the culture of corruption in DC according to the O!ne, will be once again allowed to ply their trade especially when it ciomes to getting their vig of the porkulus money…

   Well I guess that puts ACORN and other community groups right back up at the front row of the trough…

   So what? What’s another flip-flop by the O!ne…

   This is old hat,nothing to see here, move along…

   Once again, the Pharisees would be amazed at the hypocrisy of the modern Democratic party in America…

8. Bob Reed says:

   May 30, 2009 at 9:56 am

   sorry for fouling up the tag switches…

9. JD says:

   May 30, 2009 at 10:01 am

   I do not think this counts as a flip-flop. This is abject dishonesty, Bob.

10. Joe says:

    May 30, 2009 at 10:28 am

    sdferr: “Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.” Pericles

11. Bob Reed says:

    May 30, 2009 at 10:31 am

    JD,

    You have a point friend…And it’s a shame that they choose for it to come off as a flip-flop…

    ‘Cuz, you know, lack of conviction in politicians is considered a feature, not a bug…

12. JD says:

    May 30, 2009 at 10:37 am

    They did not even put on the pretenses of following it. They announced it with great fanfare after campaigning on it for years, and then immediately started ignoring it. I am frankly shocked that they bothered to announce that they were walking back from it, rather than just continuing to ignore it.

13. psycho... says:

    May 30, 2009 at 11:32 am

    I am frankly shocked that they bothered to announce that they were walking back from it, rather than just continuing to ignore it.

    A publicized walkback lets them remind repeaters of things they’ve been told to repeat that what they’re supposed to be doing now is casting lobbyists as industry experts, not rent-seeking parasites.

    “So you’d rather have a bunch of lawyers setting policy, not people who know business? What would the WSJ say? HUH?”

    Conservatives who’ve been suckered into believing that “business” is part of their team will face a dilemma. And they’ll resolve it by gettin’ rolled. As ever.

14. Techie says:

    May 30, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    Now, that’s some change I can believe in.

    Why is anyone surprised? All of Obama’s promises come with an expiration date. All of them.

15. Seth says:

    May 30, 2009 at 3:33 pm

    Oh don’t worry, these will be The Most Ethical Lobbyists Ever™!

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17. B Moe says:

    May 30, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Hey where all the trolls at?

18. LTC John says:

    May 30, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    B Moe, they wouldn’t come here to try and defend this…unless, maybe…who was it who kept saying the President was all about “expanding the sphere of personal liberty”? Maybe he could have just said “see! ore allowable speech!11!1 LIBERTY!!1!”

19. Barrack Milhouse Obama says:

    May 30, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    You all ain’t seen nothin’ yet, I am fixin’ to have one of those debit card swipin’ things put on the desk in the Oval Office. Efficiency in government, ya’ dig?

20. Christopher Taylor says:

    May 31, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Well he kept a few of the rules: you can’t be critical of the stimulus spending as a lobbyist.

21. JD says:

    May 31, 2009 at 9:22 am

    This is obviously Bush’s fault.

    This is really galling. Barry O walking away from this after all of his preening and waxing eloquent should get, at the very least, the same amount of attention at his dishonest attempts to do this, followed by immediately disregarding it.

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