... is edging closer to the troll cage! ...Tom is the list's troll; you won't get a definitive, on-topic statement from him. Everything must bend to his will, etc... I have suggested that perhaps he is a paid list lobbyist, or perhaps here from some church to cast out demons. That he can't seem to on-topic almost demands some sort of pretense as at play... chronic pain? I guess I'm silly too, in addition to curious, I think ...

.../alt.politics.immigration/msg/fd5daf34af263bef BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAGES WAR AGAINST FREE SPEECH http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.immigration/msg/b36d09abd041439b OBAMA BOUGHT 4 MILLION IN EARMARKS FROM BIDENS LOBBYIST SON JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.immigration/msg/361c14f22b457903 ALLEN KEYS ON OBAMA SUPPORTING THE KILLING OF BORN INFANTS (INFANTICIDE) http://groups.google.com...

... this year, the industry spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat a California legislative proposal to ban BPA in food packaging. The Chemistry Council and allied companies and industry groups hired an army of lobbyists, including Navigators LLC,the Washington firm that ran Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2003 campaign and his 2004 budget reform drive. Tactics included an industry email to food banks charging that a BPA ban would mean ...

...who can't stand earmarks or the lobbyists who arrange such wasteful pork-barrel spending...that she hired Alaska's top Washington lobbyists to secure millions of dollars in ...-- has maintained cozy relationships with business lobbyists and, indeed, stocked his campaign staff ... McCain's relationship with a telecommunication lobbyist, his campaign issued a statement declaring ... done favors for special interests or lobbyists, and he will not allow a ...

... Palin, whose campaigns (lieutenant governor, governor and now Veep) are financed and even run by the lobbyists and executives of Big Oil, Wall Street bankers, drug companies, telecom giants and other entrenched economic interests.... while milking taxpayers for billions of dollars in subsidies. Palin doesn't. Populists don't hire corporate lobbyists to deliver a boatload of earmarked federal funds, then turn around and claim to be a heroic ...

...so completely screwed. It has cultivated its votes with racist identity politics and phony paeans to Jesus. It has faked a love of cultural habits like NASCAR and disdained arugula-eating elites, all while the corporate lobbyists who wrote the laws that have sunk these Real Americans into further economic despair dine at Washington's finest restaurants. Mooseburgers might even push arugula salads off the menus in those haunts if McCain and ...

... the details of the Treasury plan and monitoring its impact to determine whether it achieves the key benchmarks I believe are necessary to address this crisis. First, this plan must not focus on the whims of lobbyists and special interests worried about their bonuses and hourly fees, but instead on strengthening our economy and helping struggling homeowners who are also being hit by lost jobs, stagnant wages and spiraling costs of ...

... associations, and advocacy groups spent more than $140 million on lobbying and deployed at least 952 lobbyists, according to a 2004 Public Citizen report. Their biggest priority: to prevent a system in which ... of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, and the Public Health Service. It worked. "Drug company lobbyists were unbelievably successful in getting a sentence put in the legislation saying the government cannot negotiate or ...

... powerful. Many larger businesses initially launched political departments for self- protection. Microsoft, for example, employed no lobbyists and retained no lobbying firm to represent them in DC until the gummint launched its antitrust suit. They had no need, and no interest, in gummint handouts. Now they have lobbyists, who will soon be exploring ways to influence the gummint in their favor (and Microsoft can buy a ...

...> The result has been a slow-motion disaster. Income inequality has approached levels normally associated with Third World oligarchies, not healthy Western democracies. The federal government has grown so encrusted with business lobbyists that it can no longer meet the great public challenges of our time. Not even many conservative voters or intellectuals find the result congenial. Government is no smaller—it is simply more ...