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Originally Posted by finnbow
You can't swing a dead cat in DC without hitting a lobbyist. FWIW, as big as a scoundrels as we wish to paint them, they're exercising their rights to petition the government. Lobbyists aren't the problem. The problem is politicians who allow lobbyists undue influence. The poster child of bad lobbyist/politician relationships was Jack Abramoff (a Republican, BTW).
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But hudred dollar bills are not a petition. The First says "... to petition the government for the
redress of grievences." That my friend is a post facto function, the government has to have done summat. It does not mean the Prince Dickie gets to invite Enron and ExxonMobil into the Whitehouse to write the energy bill. Someone needs to rovide some remedial reading traing to the members of SCOTUS.