They’re back
"Listening to Barack Obama and his allies during the campaign, you might have thought that the biggest threat to America was not Al Qaeda or Islamic terrorists, but Washington lobbyists. Obama spent tens of millions of dollars on negative attack ads warning the American people that – hold on to your chair – lobbyists were working for John McCain and the Republican Party.
Having been in Washington for 30 years, I thought this seemed like a bizarre tactic, but it worked. I thought it was bizarre because the entire Democratic Party is a hodgepodge of special interests groups and coalitions that have little in common beyond their faith in government.
For example, when a lobbyist for the radical environmentalist movement walks into the room and demands we stop producing energy in this country, the waters part and drilling becomes off-limits and coal suddenly makes us “sick.” When a lobbyist for the homosexual rights movement comes in and demands marriage be redefined, liberal politicians have new revelations and “gay rights” instantly become civil rights.
When a union lobbyist enters the room and demands payback for political activism, suddenly the secret ballot isn’t so sacrosanct after all. When a lobbyist from Planned Parenthood goes to Capitol Hill and demands your hard-earned tax money be used to pay for abortions, a woman’s “choice” becomes your obligation to pay.
Well, today there is news that the incoming administration is full of guess what – lobbyists. According to today’s Washington Times, one of the Obama transition team’s key advisors is Thomas Donilon, a former lobbyist for Fannie Mae who led the effort to thwart congressional Republican attempts to crack down on Fannie Mae’s reckless lending practices.
It has also been previously reported that another Obama transition team leader, Wendy Sherman, was president and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation during the Clinton Administration and a strategist for the radical pro-abortion group EMILY’s List. By the way, ABC News recently reported that Obama’s choice to be White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel, served on Freddie Mac’s board of directors from 2000-to-2001.
I don’t know about you, but I suspect there is little hope for change at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now that all these old friends of Fannie and Freddie are back in power. We suspected that “change you can believe in” was a hollow slogan that would disappear quickly, but we had no idea that it would be gone before Inauguration Day."
Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families
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