May 05, 2009
Democrats Let Lobbyists Write Sweeping, Expansive Environmental Legislation
They told me if I voted for John McCain, we'd have business as usual in Washington and would see corporate lobbyists cozy with the party in power write the nation's legislation on pressing issues that would favor their own businesses and enrich themselves with taxpayer money.
Democratic lawmakers who spent much of the Bush administration blasting officials for letting energy lobbyists write national policy have turned to a coalition of business and environmental groups to help draft their own sweeping climate bill.It's almost as if the party in power were not actually righteous moral crusaders or paragons civic virtue, despite their contentions to the contrary and their promises to "change" Washington in 2006 and 2008.And one little-noticed provision of the draft bill would give one of the coalition's co-founders a lucrative exemption on a coal-fired project it is building.
By Good Lt. at May 5, 2009 06:47 AM | | l digg this
