11/28/2009 09:23:09 AM EST

Obama no longer want federally-registered lobbyists

posted by celebviewer89

I just wanted to refer to a great article

on the Huffington post,

I actuilly posted an article earlier, on Thanksgiving

about how the big companies,

spreds anti-Obama propoganda,

well prepare for more anti-obama commercials.

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appearently Obama dont want anymore lobbyists on his federal advisory board.

Quote from The article says

"These appointees to boards and commissions, which are made by agencies and not the President, advise the federal government on a variety of policy areas. Keeping these advisory boards free of individuals who currently are registered federal lobbyists represents a dramatic change in the way business is done in Washington." 

Soo maybe he is heading to a better direction. ?

Well, atleast for now, because the lobbyists wont give up soo  easy, they are appearently outraged by this and could attack more then ever now, 

another quote from the article

this one is on the reaction from the lobbyists.

The reaction from the lobbying community has been swift and overwhelmingly negative. Some of the loudest criticism has come from the Industry Trade Advisory Committees (ITACs), a collection of more than a dozen panels that provide policy advice and technical assistance to the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative. The ITACs, whose roughly 400 members include at least 130 lobbyists, officials say, have taken the lead in attacking the White House policy as misguided and harmful to U.S. business interests; a letter to Obama from committee chairs last month included executives from Boeing, IBM, Harley-Davidson and International Paper.


"This action will severely undermine the utility of the advisory committee process," the letter read. ". . . The characteristics that make many Advisors valuable to the Administration [are] the same characteristics that are being used to artificially disqualify them from participation in the Committee system."


This is a perfect example, on how they put pressure on The President,


You can read the whole article, which originally are posted by Washington Post, and reposted by

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.c om/2009/11/27/obama-pushes- lobbyists-of_n_372070.html

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Obama is ineffectivly nibbling at the edges... (none / 0)
...on purpose.

The root of the problem is in Congress.  Various industries and corporations have veritable employees acting as our Representatives and Senators.  While we may pay such elected officals a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year,  that is a mere pittance compared to what they can receive in campaign contributions (which would more accurately referred to as "bribes" or "salaries").    Besides, without those "contributions", many elected officials could not get re-elected.  If you also consider future salaries, favors, and the power that lobbyists lend to their minions, our elected "representatives" do much better when they do the bidding of the corporations than act in the people's interest.

Until we opt for public campaign financing and overturn the Supreme Court's ruling that money is constitutionally equivalent to speech, then all of our other efforts at reform -- of any kind -- are wasted.  If anyone needs any further proof, the corruption evident in Congressional health care finance reform proposals should be sufficient. (I still don't understand why Republicans are protesting it.  A vote for it would look good to their constituents while assuring that their corporate employers would receive even more taxpayer dollars with few -- if any -- strings attached.)

We're doing things in the wrong order.  We have to get the corporations out of government first.  And while what Obama is doing seems to be a step in the right direction, it will be ineffective without campaing fianace reform.   It's not the executive branch, from which he appears to be cleaning the lobbyists, that passes laws and budgets.  It's Congress that does those things, and it's Congressional corruption that is the main problem.

But obama dumped public campaign financing from his platform just before the election.

It's time that we started admitting that Obama is not a victim of bad advice.  He's getting the advice he wants from the people he wants.  He's surrounded himself with corporatists because he is one, and that makes him part of the problem.

by EveningStarNM on 11/28/2009 03:34:17 PM EST

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