A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists - NYTimes.com

All this is missing are corporate logos.

This will not be topic on Fox News.

This information may not be widely known by most people, and is ignored by Republicans, but this Surprises Nobody.

In terms of pieces of shit Boehner is the biggest piece of shit of them all. That goes for Democrats or Republicans.

Every politician ends up dealing with lobbyists. However, there are degrees of "cooperation". Boehner's cooperation however smacks of collusion. Here we had a US Congressmen actively working with corporate America to undermine common sense financial reform. If Boehner and the lobbyists got their way, NOTHING would have changed and Wall Street would be back to their shenanigans, comfortable in the knowledge that no matter how badly they screwed up, US taxpayers would be forced to bail them out. But you know what, Boehner doesn't care. If he's tossed out of office all he'll do is become a lobbyist at two or three times his congressional salary.

The system is broken and will stay broken as long as there is a financial umbilical cord connecting K Street to the US Congress. Boenher is nothing more than a corporate fascist whose sole interest is undermining the power of the US government such that we the people will have no realistic representation in DC.

My idea for a solution:

1) give lobbyists a choice, a)all their conversations with representatives of the federal government must be recorded, verbatim, and placed in an easily accessed, public on line database or; b)you can't do business with the federal government

2)Any willful violation of 1a or 1b is a felony punishable by a prison sentence and large fine.

Of course this will never happen because the people responsible for making these rules (congress) are already owned by the lobbyists.

Yup, that's Agent Orange...and every bit as toxic.

Oh Please !

Heh, Heh, Heh, The GOP leader's name is Boner...

Done with my best Beavis & Butthead imitation.

I noticed someone voted my comment about Obama's hypocrisy on Lobbyists down. Ronald Reagan used to say "Facts are a stubborn thing."

all politicians are bound to lobbyists, thats their job.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matthew 7:3

candidate Obama declared back in 2007, "our leaders have thrown open the door of Congress and the White House to an army of Washington lobbyists who have turned government into a game only they can play." In the past 18 months, that hasn't changed.

During the campaign, top drug lobbyist Billy Tauzin had been Obama's poster boy for the revolving door, even starring as the villain in an Obama ad titled "Billy." Then came the fight to pass Obamacare. In the summer of 2009, Tauzin met in the West Wing with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and cut a deal pledging PhRMA's support if the White House promised to protect and subsidize drug companies.

Candidate Obama also pledged to "close the revolving door between K Street and the executive branch." He hasn't even come close. Already a handful of administration staffers has cashed out. Fannie Mae alumnus Damon Munchus left Obama's Treasury for a K Street firm representing Citigroup and hedge funds. Former campaign aide and Labor Department staffer Oscar Ramirez joined the Podesta Group, representing Bank of America and Google. Grant Leslie was senior adviser to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack before she joined the Glover Park Group where she represents DuPont and Coca-Cola. Former White House Counsel Greg Craig is at Goldman Sachs.

Obama, admittedly, has more control over the other side of the revolving door -- lobbyists entering his administration. Obama's promise: "They won't work in my White House." In his first State of the Union address, Obama declared victory on this score: "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."

But in the previous 12 months, the Obama administration had hired at least 45 former lobbyists to policymaking jobs, including five Cabinet slots. A former lobbyist for the Swiss Bankers Association is the general counsel at the IRS, and a former Goldman lobbyist is chief of staff at the Treasury Department. Monsanto's former chief lobbyist is the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods. When Obama got rid of his ethics czar this summer, he transferred White House transparency duties to former lobbyist Bob Bauer.

This doesn't count the "nonlobbyist lobbyists" like Liz Fowler, who was vice president of public policy at WellPoint, the nation's largest insurer, but never registered as a lobbyist. After Obamacare passed, she joined the Department of Health and Human Services.

Well ya, the latest numbers show that the vast majority of corporation donatons have gone to the Republican party. What i find interesting is that the majority of private donations (everyday people) go to the Democrat party. Hmmmmm, which party cares for the people again?

And yet, the morons out there keep voting Republican,
and keep these people in power.

News flash- they don't care about the middle and working classes.
They just want you to vote for them.

And now, in rebuttal, one of our standard trolls will post a photo of Obama with a turban and a swastika.