THAT is one of many responsibilities of federally elected and appointed officials. It would UNCONSTITUTIONAL for these officials to shut citizens out of the process.

Comment by Jason M. Hendler

It is about the lobbying…….corporations have unlimited funds to buy votes. Environmentalists and Unions don’t have and never will have the money to comepete.

lobby system = votes for sale….this is not democracy. Thanks ronny

yes, because organizations and unions that support Democrats are special interests, but corporations and Big Oil that support Republicans are not, but rather citizens only petitioning their government.

What would you like? You can always avail yourself of the thinkfast threads in the mornings to post critiques of Obama.

Well, since TP refuses to acknowledge any of Clinton’s problems or Obama’s successes, about all they have left in the Presidential race is McCain. I wonder how they are going to handle it once Obama is truly the candidate?
Comment by bilbobaggins — March 1, 2008 @ 6:48 pm

very well said… liked it so much i wanted to repeat it…
i’ve been trying to find a way to ask that question myself…
thanks…

i have all the confidence in the world that TP will come through
the process just fine though…

it damn well better… or just shut down…
and i don’t like the connotations of that…

Comment by Bobwurst — March 1, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

You got that right.
To the Reptilicans voters and average working people are “special interests”

In the words of Chimpy McFlightsuit “the haves and the have-mores” are “his base”.

Well, since TP refuses to acknowledge any of Clinton’s problems or Obama’s successes, about all they have left in the Presidential race is McCain. I wonder how they are going to handle it once Obama is truly the candidate?

Comment by tombaker

or his skanky crooked lobbyist girlfriend.

so daring

SOOO “Independent”

…just ask his crooked lobbyist campaign manager/lawyer

You are willfully confusing public interest groups such as unions and environmental groups with corporate special interests. There’s a big difference between a politician acting in the public interest and supporting the environment, consumer rights or the rights of workers and a politician cosing up to private corporate interests against the public interest. Politicians are supposed to represent we the people, the voting public, not corporations.

Comment by Snowball

And this troll is wrong about obama. It just spews the standard rightwing smear. Obama has over 1,00,000 individual contributors. I guess in the troll world, citizens are a special interest group.

It is NOT the lobbying that is the problem, since you don’t complain about the payoffs to the Dems to act in response to union, environmental and tort-reform needs. You simply want to make McCain look bad by any slander you can create, regardless of whether that same slander is equally applied to your own.

Comment by Jason M. Hendler — March 1, 2008 @ 1:06 pm

You are willfully confusing public interest groups such as unions and environmental groups with corporate special interests. There’s a big difference between a politician acting in the public interest and supporting the environment, consumer rights or the rights of workers and a politician cosing up to private corporate interests against the public interest. Politicians are supposed to represent we the people, the voting public, not corporations.

No Republicans would speak to the reporters on the record, wary of the impression that their immunity support is little more than a legislative shake-down for campaign donations. But plenty proffered private complaints about the telco’s shifting support.

HA!!

See Hendler, its not that they care about immunity, like McCaiin they only care about the donations.

I mean what can you do with trolls, you plant em top side up, you come back one day later and they got their heads in the soil again.