Demorats Sound Special Interest Clarion Call

The Demorats have sounded the Horn of Gondor, and all of their fellow vermin have answered the clarion call. 400 lobbyists gathered at the behest of Senator Harkin. The free cheese is about to be skimmed from the pig trough, and the gluttons of taxpayer largess are concerned about their livelihood.

"One thing everyone should be able to agree on now is that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that a higher [Labor, Health & Human Services] allocation improves the chances for every stakeholder group to receive more funding," the committee staffer for Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, wrote in an e-mail inviting people to the meeting.

Burdensome taxes and regulations may raise their boats, but it sinks everyone elses.

We all know what is going to happen when the Republicans cut the budget. One rat attendee had this self-serving comment:

"Everyone who was there was desperately concerned and very appreciative of being in a room seeing so many people like them who are also concerned," said a source who attended the meeting.


"We obviously have to cut the budget deficit and address the debt problem, but are we going to do that on the backs of the poor, the unemployed, those without child care, et cetera? That's the kind of thing that could halt the economic recovery in its tracks."

We are about to have a replay of the 90’s budget battle. Here comes demagoguery:

Another source familiar with the meeting said Democrats used the meeting as "an attack on House Republicans."


"They said these evil House Republicans are here and they're going to kill all these programs that support little kids, senior citizens, and health care," the source said. "They're trying to instill the fear of God that Republicans are basically going to blow up all these programs, kill these programs, defund them."


"It seemed to me like they are trying to build momentum to push the Republicans back on their promises on funding levels and I think – to their credit – they were reaching out to a vast number of organizations to build a coalition of people who are willing to take action against whatever may come out of the House."

Does anyone remember Nancy Pelosi’s speech on special interest?





The stink of desperation is wafting over D.C. and the country is witnessing which party belongs to the special interest groups and who is for the people.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senators-issue-call-arms-lobbyists-ahead-proposed-spending/story?id=12834989&page=2