Video of the Day:Obama Meets Lobbyists Across the Street to Avoid Transparency

Lobbyists Give Millions to Dems As Obama Smears ‘Special Interests’

By Warner Todd Huston,Gateway Pundit

Let’s go back to those hopey-changie days of the Obama campaign for president when he railed constantly against all those “special interests” and eeeevil lobbyists that he claimed were ruining the political process. Let us recall that once elected he claimed he’d have [...]

Elite Lobbying Firms Posted Big Gains in 2009

By Anna Palmer,Roll Call

 to the victors go the spoils

K Street’s top 25 firms cashed in on the aggressive legislative agenda unleashed by the new president and bigger Democratic majorities in Congress in 2009 to post double-digit growth of about 10 percent over the previous year.

Despite [...]

Obama and the K Street Set

By THOMAS FRANK,Wall Street Journal

Lobbyists are doing well under Obama,while the rest of the country suffers

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama "Hope"poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s [...]

Washington Ethics:Cartoon of the Day

Nate Beeler,The Washington Examiner

Obama sidesteps Pledge on Donations

By JEFF ZELENY,New York Times

Obama bans lobbyists…but still accepts their money

When President Obama arrived at the Mandarin Oriental hotel for a fund-raising reception on Thursday night,the new White House rules of political purity were in order:no lobbyists allowed.

But at the same downtown hotel [...]