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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Hey, teabaggers...what a bunch of schmucks you are
Posted by Jill | 9:23 PM
Those guys you're planning to vote for? Their "Pledge for America" was written by a lobbyist:

The Republican Party's 21-page blueprint, "Pledge to America," was put together with oversight by a House staffer who, up till April 2010, served as a lobbyist for some of the nation's most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies.



In a draft version of The Pledge that was being passed around to reporters before the official release, the document properties list "Wild, Brian" as the "Author." A GOP source said that Wild -- who is on House Minority Leader John Boehner's payroll -- did help author the governing platform that the party is unveiling on Thursday. Another aide said that as the executive director of the Republican leadership group American Speaking Out, Wild's tasks were more on the administrative side of the operations.



Until early this year, Wild was a fairly active lobbyist on behalf of the firm the Nickles Group, the lobbying shop set up by the former Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Don Nickles. During his five years at the firm, Wild, among others, was paid $740,000 in lobbying contracts from AIG, the former insurance company at the heart of the financial collapse; $800,000 from energy giant Andarko Petroleum; more than $1.1 million from Comcast, more than $1.3 million from Exxon Mobil; and $625,000 from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.



So when this pledge talks about less regulation and repeal of health care reform, and when Republicans talk about wanting to turn over Social Security to Wall Street, they aren't looking to do it for you. They're looking to do it for their REAL constituents. You know, the people they really mean when they refer to "our people".

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