Obama’s Lobbyist Slams Mask Big K Street Payday

In his State of the Union speech, the president puffed up his chest, fixed his Mr. Scornful face, and once again pulled out the populist’s handbook to bash those evil, monstrous lobbyists.

Obama mentioned lobbyists seven times in his address and in every case they were used as a scapegoat to explain away Washington’s inability to get one thing or another done.

Obama promised — again and for the thousandth time — to “end the outsized influence of lobbyists” in Washington. He then praised himself for excluding lobbyists from jobs in his administration and he proposed even more limits on them.

This attack on lobbyists is cathartic and makes for great populist boilerplate, of course, but there isn’t much truth in Obama’s attack on them because the fact is K Street — the D.C. street where many lobbying firms are located — has made more money off the Obama Administration than from any previous president.

And Obama has been pretty blatant about ignoring the obvious disconnect between his populist harangues against lobbyists and his coddling and sidling up to them. Obama’s big paydays to lobbyists at nearly every level has been nothing short of breathtaking. It has been like this since day one.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Big Government, Financial Services, influence peddling, K Street
Posted Jan 29th 2010 at 12:51 pm in Congress, Economics, Obama, Politics, federal spending | 6688683 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/01/29/obamas-lobbyist-slams-masks-big-k-street-payday/Obama%27s+Lobbyist+Slams+Mask+Big+K+Street+Payday2010-01-29+20%3A51%3A17Warner+Todd++Huston

My Congressman Is Nuts: Alan Grayson Edition

Alan Grayson.  How did this clown get elected?  Even Democrats are asking themselves that.

The man who delighted in claiming Republicans want the sick to die to save the taxpayers money, was so proud of his obnoxiousness that he started a website to celebrate himself, www.congressmanwithguts.com.

No sooner did his self promotion tour get off the ground before his mouth got some more attention, calling one of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s aids a “K Street whore.”  After 24 hours of defending the outrageously out-of-bounds slur, and after pretty candid criticism from his fellow Democrats, Mr. Manners finally apologized.

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Tags: 2010 mid term elections, Alan Grayson, Ben Bernanke, independent expenditure, K Street
Posted Oct 30th 2009 at 11:43 am in Congress, Politics, State Politics | 22986108 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/jroe/2009/10/30/my-congressman-is-nuts-alan-grayson-edition/My+Congressman+Is+Nuts%3A+Alan+Grayson+Edition2009-10-30+18%3A43%3A00Jason+Cabel++Roe