Lobbying at Work Before Your Very Eyes!

This is how it looks when a lobbyist is successful.  There is a special little exemption carved out in a giant, onerous piece of legislation.  Speaker Pelosi, rather than reaching across the aisle and including some form of tort reform in the Health Care bill, took the opportunity instead to stick her hand out to the legal bar and ask for votes and money.

So much for honesty and transparency and considering other, helpful ideas in crafting the bill.

“Crafting” the bill’; now there is a misuse of a word if ever there was one.  It’s a common enough phrase, to “craft” a piece of legislation, as if the legislator is some sort of artisanal craft worker or wildly skilled artist, gifted in the ways of taking a dictionary and removing all the words that do not express the artist’s vision.  There’s no “craftwork” afoot here; merely naked political power, used to force the views of the few onto the many.  Throw ‘em all out and limit congressional sessions to three months of the year and send them home to their districts instead of having them all grouped together in that big ass high school known as Washington DC.