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Porkies II
Right-wing activists have blasted the GOP Congress' pork barrel spending. It'd be easier to take them seriously if so many of their leaders weren't in the bacon business themselves.
By Michael Scherer [2006-02-22]

  • You mean to tell me ...

    that politicians and lobbyists say one thing, and then do another?!

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    Say it ain't so, Joe, say it ain't so!

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    Also, maybe it's just me (and I might be called upon to turn in my left-leaning credentials by saying this), but calling out the ACU for the fact that 5 out of *35* of its board members are lobbyists seems a bit much. They're on the board, not the executive director (the guy who runs the daily operations, who also sent out the email). Is it suspect? Yes. Are they the majority of the people who direct the policy choices of the entire ACU? No. So, until there are more than 14% of the board who are lobbyists, I don't really see this as an issue.

    Each party and each political wing has people who do not agree with all of the ideals that are ascribed to that party/wing (see pro-life Democrats/liberals (Bob Casey Jr), or pro-choice Republicans/conservatives (Lincoln Chafee)). Are we reduced to calling out hypocrisy towards an *advocacy* group for the actions of its minority, when the elected *Administration* performs with so much more disregard to their supposed ideals?

    -- Full of Sound & Fury
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    Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:34 AM
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