Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lobbying. Show all posts

Thursday, January 30, 2025

The Kennedy Hearing was Ugly

 

When your own family thinks you are a weird conspiracy freak who is uniquely unqualified and literally call you a grifting predator, well, that's probably bad news, right? 

But when quizzing by US Senators demonstrates you don't know Medicare from Medicaid and have not just trimmed your public pronouncements to suit your audience but are a legal grifter profiting off of your own BS (as Sen. Warren demonstrated), well, that hurts to be aired publicly, in so many words, doesn't it? 

Or maybe it doesn't.

This guy gave himself a brainworm from consuming roadkill, admits to dumping a bear corpse in a public park, seems sketchy about how germ theory works, has no medical or scientific background whatsoever, has opinions about the AIDS virus and vaccines that would have been shameful and out of date 25 years ago, let alone today, and yet?

He's got influence in his corner. Why they want him, I don't know. You might think people would want someone who isn't a whole fucking flake in an important position like Secretary of Health and Human Services--

Unless you just aren't that interested in health and will be goddamned if you see it as a basic human service. 

Friday, December 23, 2016

Schroedinger's Swamp

So, it sort of looks like Newt Gingrich made the terrible mistake of alleging that Trump wasn't really out to "drain the swamp" even though that was the oft-stated reasoning for the Trump campaign. Even though it seems like Trump is just this minute importing alligators. But it doesn't do to contradict the Great Leader. If Trump wants to still claim to be draining the swamp, well, this will still be the story.   Nevermind the lobbyists or the Wall Streeters. Because the swamp certainly might be being drained if one doesn't happen to be observing. And observing is not anyone's actual business, as yet.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Robert Reich Calls on The President to Sign an Executive Order de-funding Military Contract Lobbying



I've always been a bit concerned about the influence of military contract lobbying because the military contractors make more money when the shit is hitting the fan--

Think about that.

(Also related content, I'd recommend Rachel Maddow's excellent Drift for how we got here with respects to private contractors and US militarism.)

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