Why Americans have a low opinion of Congress
Consider the guy replacing the indicted House majority leader:
As majority whip, Blunt, even more than DeLay before him, has created a formal alliance with K Street lobbyists, empowering corporate representatives and trade association executives to assist the House leadership in counting votes and negotiating amendments to bring holdouts into the fold.
Last year, when the House leadership faced apparently insurmountable odds in passing legislation eliminating a $50 billion export tax break, the lobbying community stepped in to add billions of new tax breaks for major corporations with facilities in nearly every district — General Electric, Boeing, Caterpillar, United Technologies, Honeywell and Emerson. The support built up majority backing for the measure.
Blunt’s best-known special-interest intervention was a 2003 late-night attempt — unsuccessful, as it turned out — to add an amendment sought by Philip Morris. Blunt’s son then was a lobbyist for Philip Morris in Missouri; Blunt himself was dating a Philip Morris lobbyist whom he later married, and he had received more than $150,000 in contributions from the company and subsidiaries.
It’s the cronyism, stupid. The neo-conservative revolution has become the biggest, cheatin’est welfare ho in world history. They are a disgrace to conservativism and a tragedy to the country.
They oughta be tagged as neoconpedophiles, because the way they’ve run up the national debt, they’re screwing our children and grandchildren permanently.
September 28th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
And yet, nobody cares. I’ll ask my friends tomorrow if they even know who Blunt is or what K Street means and they’ll stare at me like I’m nuts.
September 29th, 2005 at 12:23 am
Folks who are ignorant of how government works should be treated with amazement, instead of vice-versa. Say “One of these days, I’ll even tell you about the magic thing called ‘voting’.”
It won’t win friends, but I bet it’ll influence them.
September 29th, 2005 at 5:21 pm
Excellent meme.
They oughta be tagged as neoconpedophiles, because the way they’ve run up the national debt, they’re screwing our children and grandchildren permanently.
People have such busy lives. Who has time to look after politics? In the end folks just hope and trust that politicians get on with their jobs competently the way they get on with their own jobs competently.