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Obama Hypocrisy Watch: Obama Rips Lobbyists, Then Gives Them Private Briefings

By Implode-Explode Heavy Industries

"The really appalling part is the lobbyists are so deeply embedded in the the operations of government, that the get upset when they are called bad names. Not only are they predictably blind to how corrupting their influence is, but they think their role is legimate, and have lost sight of the fact that the legislators and Executive Branch members that they influence need to have plausible deniabilty, hence need to issue the occasional stern statement about how awful lobbyists are before going back to business as usual. The fact that lobbyists are chafing at this necessary ritual says how disproportionate their role has become."

Full post as published by Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).