Our President For Hire
What kind of politician hires a professional political lobbyist as one of his high-ranking advisers? Our President, that’s who.
Ed Gillespie, named Wednesday as the next White House counselor, is a partner in Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC, a lobbying firm whose clients include: Sirius Satellite Radio, which needs antitrust approval to acquire a rival; Qualcomm, which wants Bush to veto a federal agency’s ban on imported cell phones made with its chips; and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group trying to limit drug industry regulation.
Wormtongue has once again entered the White House. Gillespie, who co-founded his lobbying firm with former Clinton White House Counsel Jack Quinn, earned $16,000,000 in 2006 by convincing “public” officials to pass legislation that serves their rich corporate clients instead of the American people.
Honestly, I don’t get it. Why is it acceptable for our elected officials to continue to share a bed with these corrupt soothsayers? Seriously … what do you think?
June 17th, 2007 at 5:25 am EST
Why should Americans think? Thinking means that you have to make judgments. That in turn means you have to take a stand for something. They have the media to do that for them.