Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 20:31 TPM has compiled a really nifty inter-active map so that you can click and see who are the uber-lobbyists - those ex-legislators who went for the K Street bailout - from your state. TPM counts 172 of these bottom feeders.
Click here to go there.
k street, lobbyists, tpm in politics, purely maven Monday, July 13, 2009 at 22:20 I just read one of the most scathing rebukes of this so-called healthcare reform bill process, that continues to stumble - like a hapless drunk - through Congress, by Bill Moyers. Here is an excerpt:
“Three out of four of the big health care firms lobbying on Capitol Hill have former members of Congress or government staff members on the payroll – more than 350 of them – and they’re all fighting hard to prevent a public plan, at a rate in excess of $1.4 million a day.”
And, there you have the ‘why’ as in why nothing ever seems to quite get done. Somebody forgot to take down the big ‘For Sale’ sign on the front of Congress.
