The Cold Hard Facts About Lobbying Washington, DC

Canada Free Press ^ | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | JB Williams

[PlainOleAmerican]

The very first fact every American must reconcile with is the fact that “lobbying” elected representatives, like other forms of prostitution, is as old as the constitutional republic itself.

Ever since the moment that our founding colonies ratified these words, “Governments instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and established that we the people were endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, namely “freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” Americans have been using a myriad of mechanisms by which to do just that - to “lobby” their elected representatives. The second fact is that all of those mechanisms are varying forms of “lobbying.”

[PlainOleAmerican]

Obama is winning the fund raising race in every category.

Very telling where the money is coming from... and the American people have a right and a need to know ALL of the donors behind the "bundlers."

[DManA]

The only way to clean up the flies is take away the honey.

[theDentist]

Very good article. The only part that perplexes me is: Why is it in Canada Free Press, and not in any American News?

[PlainOleAmerican]

The writer is American and it is on independent news sites here in the states. In fact this is a cleaner posting here, I just happened to see the Canadian post first.

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/williams/jb_williams.htm

But we will never see a piece like this in the “mainstream” American press. Such facts don’t suit the agenda of the American press today...

[Wolfie]

You mean the big money coporate interests who own the media don’t want the media reporting on the big money corporate interests’ lobbying efforts? Go figure.

[PlainOleAmerican]

You catch on fast!

BRAVO!