Posts tagged as Lobbyists
Big Government Forces Poor Doctors to Report Free Sandwiches
“Some companies fear that doctors may no longer want to engage in consulting arrangements, and such reluctance could chill innovation." READ MORE
Howard Dean Just Really Passionate About Strange, Well-Funded Issues
Hey, what's Howard Dean up to these days? Oh. He's a filthy little shill.
Evil Lobbyist Places Op-Ed Piece
"Decades of research confirm that summer learning loss is real." READ MORE
How a Biller Becomes A Lobbyist
"Consider, for example, the curious case of Liz Fowler. Fowler went from being the chief counsel for the Senate Finance Committee to being the vice president for public policy and external affairs at health insurer WellPoint in 2006. But two years later, Fowler returned to the Hill as an aide to Democratic Sen. Max Baucus (Mont.), where she—guess what?—made sure that WellPoint's interests were favored during the health care reform debate. READ MORE
Buying Congress is Cheaper Post-Election
"These guys ran against Washington, but they ran against the bad parts of Washington—the bloated bureaucracy and Nancy Pelosi's agenda. That's not a contradiction to take money from a trade group or corporation that represents free-enterprise principles." READ MORE
Finnish Embassy Is Basically Naked Lobbyist Sexy Room
Just who hobnobs with whom in the hot, dank Finnish Embassy sauna? Now we know! "Melissa Merz, a principal at the public affairs firm Podesta Group [American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity! Cherokee Nation! Lockheed Martin! Wal-Mart!] , arrived with her husband, Robert Mackey, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and historian hired by the government to declassify documents [cough, spook!]. The group then grew to include Lynne Weil, the communications director for the House Foreign Affairs Committee; her husband, Nils Bruzelius, an executive editor at the Environmental Working Group [cell phones kill!]; and Christine Mangi, a spokeswoman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) [Committee on Indian Affairs! Committee on Appropriations!] at the Senate Republican Conference.... Mark Landler, the New York Times diplomatic correspondent, arrived with his wife, Angela Tung [former IBM!], a lawyer who wore a made-in-Finland Marimekko dress. Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon and Block, the AIPAC spokesman [Israel!], followed."
Cheney, Party of Evil? Now Seating Cheney, Party of Evil.
In D.C., there's always room for one more. So the news that Mary Cheney wants to go into business with her family at a new firm is unsurprising, because, well why not go face-down into the trough, you pigs? Said a coworker of Mary Cheney's: "It's going to be a firm like Kissinger Associates." (Oh yes, the firm at which Tim Geithner spent the mid-late 80s!) This is amusing, because one has many reasons-eight long years of reasons, including the discovery that Dick Cheney was still a private industry operator even while he was residing in the Naval Observatory-to suspect that the Cheneys, in their marvelous, brash way, most definitely lack the fingerspitzengefuhl of Kissinger.
Clinton Pal Lanny Davis: Busy Bee, Honduras Operative
Hey, what is Clintonista lawyer Lanny Davis up to these days? Oh wait, he's what? "He is just bad, for the country. And not just our country! He is now being bad for Honduras, where the military recently seized power, on behalf of the business elite, who were worried that some of their wealth might be redistributed to that nation's poor." I miss the old days, when we'd just go south of the border and shoot people. Oh wait, we still do that too?
The Great New PR Campaign For Traders And Their Friends
It was easy to miss amid last week's great celebrity die-off, but while a nation turned its lonely eyes to the departing shade of Billy Mays, the securities industry moved into what it ominously termed the "execution phase" of its campaign to roll back "populist" resentment against the lords of the paper economy. READ MORE
Opinions That Don't Make Any Sense
Oooh, so the head of the Consumer Electronics Association has revealed himself to be a very confused man. Because of the TARP that is hanging over us, and because the President is drowning us in debt (um, unlike the Bush administration!), he claims: "The next generation won't have a Bill Gates, a Steve Jobs or a Mark Zuckerberg because the budding American entrepreneur won't be able to secure the financing to create the next dynamic technology company that would have energized the economy." Oh no, a generation without a Mark Zuckerberg! In the end, very little of this makes any sense.
