Marcus Aurelius
08-14-2013, 11:38 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/14/cant-wait-to-nominate-another-lobbyist/
President Obama wants to place a new tax on your monthly cell phone bill to pay for his plan to put WiFi in more classrooms. And all he needs to do it is one more lobbyist in his administration.
Getting American consumers to cough up the billions needed for Obama's "ConnectEd" initiative doesn't depend on Congress or anything so tedious as winning bipartisan support. The president's initiative instead rests squarely on his ability to push through the nomination of Tom Wheeler, a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama campaign bundler, to head the Federal Communications Commission.
And that's kind of the story in Washington these days. As Obama retreats from passing laws into the easier business of making rules, the lobbyists he once pummeled for political benefit become more and more influential.
This, from the man who claimed lobbyists would not work in his administration.
President Obama wants to place a new tax on your monthly cell phone bill to pay for his plan to put WiFi in more classrooms. And all he needs to do it is one more lobbyist in his administration.
Getting American consumers to cough up the billions needed for Obama's "ConnectEd" initiative doesn't depend on Congress or anything so tedious as winning bipartisan support. The president's initiative instead rests squarely on his ability to push through the nomination of Tom Wheeler, a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama campaign bundler, to head the Federal Communications Commission.
And that's kind of the story in Washington these days. As Obama retreats from passing laws into the easier business of making rules, the lobbyists he once pummeled for political benefit become more and more influential.
This, from the man who claimed lobbyists would not work in his administration.