lobbyists received stimulus bill before lawmakers.

[joevol320]

Congressional Offices Don't Have the Stimulus Bill, Lobbyists Do - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

i lobbyists were going to be banned in washington. lol:

 

[MG1968]

K Street will never go away. It's just that Obama pledged not to have any in his administration.

 

[volinbham]

Worse, there seem to be several different versions of what was agreed upon, with some officials circulating older versions of the package that seems to still be developing

What a shock...

 

[rjd970]

This whole thing is a disaster. Obama seems like he is trying to do the same thing the Bush administration did with TARP...e.g. pushing it through with little debate under the guise of "emergency"...but it isn't working out like it did with W.

 

[volinbham]

This whole thing is a disaster. Obama seems like he is trying to do the same thing the Bush administration did with TARP...e.g. pushing it through with little debate under the guise of "emergency"...but it isn't working out like it did with W.

Agree it's a disaster.

the thing about TARP was the Dems were behind that too (in terms of supporting it). Not singling them out but it was more than Bushy behind the TARP - the Dems greenlighted it.

 

[KB5252]

This whole thing is a disaster. Obama seems like he is trying to do the same thing the Bush administration did with TARP...e.g. pushing it through with little debate under the guise of "emergency"...but it isn't working out like it did with W.

In part because they see little if any evidence it actually did anything for the economy. In hindsight some would have voted differently. Sadly the dems in office right now seem willing to spend money that will do little for the economy, again!

 

[MG1968]

This whole thing is a disaster. Obama seems like he is trying to do the same thing the Bush administration did with TARP...e.g. pushing it through with little debate under the guise of "emergency"...but it isn't working out like it did with W.

I guess that's where something like leadership comes in. Obama proved himself a great campaigner, but thus far his leadership leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[gsvol]

K Street will never go away. It's just that Obama pledged not to have any in his administration.

Attorney General Eric Holder has also been a lobbyist.

Eric Holder's career before, during and after his time in the Clinton Administration is a very ugly one.

Twenty-four hours before a scheduled Senate committee hearing, the DOJ withheld the FBI's written statement about the history of the FALN and an assessment of its current terrorist capability. "They pulled the plug on us," said an unnamed FBI official in a news report, referring to the Justice Department decision to prevent FBI testimony.

Eric Holder lobbied on behalf of Global Crossing, one of the 10 largest corporate bankruptcies since 1980, on a level with Enron and WorldCom. It was the 7th largest filing in American history. While Global Crossing was accumulating debt like mad, its executives were spending like mad, taking tens of millions in personal loans from the company, operating corporate jets, and selling as much inside stock as Enron.

Meanwhile Global Crossing executives were covering their asses with a million dollar donation to Bill Clinton's library. The same bribe route used by Marc Rich, another Eric Holder beneficiary.

Now guess who the auditor for Global Crossing was? Arthur Andersen, made infamous by its ties to Enron. And guess who was its lobbyist, Eric Holder

And just in case you think that the Eric Holder Scandal Train stops there, it's only the beginning of a long route which we, and probably in a few years, Federal investigators will be tracing in great detail.

I know some people who lost some very serious money by investing in Global Crossing.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that holder worked for Blagojevic in 2004 as a ‘special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board’ which was to pay his law firm $300,000 but Holder omitted that event from his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee which was signed by Holder five days after Blagojevich's arrest!!!!

The March 2004 Chicago news conference where Holder and Blagojevich spoke was widely covered because of a controversial 4-1 Gaming Board vote earlier that month to allow a casino to be built in Rosemont. That vote defied the recommendation of the board's staff, which had raised concerns about alleged organized-crime links to the Rosemont casino's developer.

Besides that, the Gaming Board's staff had been concerned that the governor had named his close friend and fund-raiser, Christopher G. Kelly, as a "special government agent" to be involved in official state negotiations about the casino. Kelly, the Sun-Times later learned, was a business partner of Tony Rezko, another Blagojevich fund-raiser who had held an option to lease a hotel site next to the proposed casino site in Rosemont.

"We all believed the only reason Holder was coming in was to fashion an investigation that would manipulate the casino into Rosemont." Jim Wagner, a top Chicago FBI agent before he joined the Gaming Board.

Why America came into being in the first place.


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