Obama's campaign emphatically stated that he would radically curb lobbying. So far this reform has not happened nor is it mentioned with any teeth by the press.
Knowing lobbyist is a key to understanding what shakes and moves this country and what direction we may be going.
It is stated by Anthony Robbins, the great motivator, that, "The past does not equal the future." Though I agree with most of what Mr. Robbins illustrates with much enthusiasm, surely he left out the word "necessarily." It should read: "The past does not necessarily equal the future."
It seems that the average Joe, the one we refer to as "The silent majority," is still mostly sitting on his duff hoping someone else will come along and pick up the ball. The word "necessarily" has to be inserted because without action there is no reaction. It isn't that he is ignorant of all things... Though he has never heard of Soros, or Pertobras, he does know the Saints has a 9-0.
Wife to a former Senate Majority leader, Tom Daschle, Linda Hall Daschle has a lot of pull.
Though her husband Tom withdrew from an Obama cabinet nomination for Health Care Czar, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, amidst a tax scandal, he has more than three decades in the business of regulator and lobbyist. Business is good, with a lot of potential when doors fly open from commercial carriers, airports, railroads and telecom companies.
Though he has many connections, Linda did not get where she is by nepotism, but by her own merit, and is said to be one of the most savvy and hardest working in Washington.
She is also very careful not to have conflicts of interest, which trips up a lot of her colleagues.
She separated herself from the lobbying firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz and started her own firm in January 2009 called LHD and Associates.
Linda has always like aviation. Her father was an airline mechanic and she spent a lot of time playing on the tarmac. Back in the '70 she got a job as weather observer for the Federal Aviation Administration and worked to get a new regional airline, Royal-Air Limited, up and flying. With this under her belt she got the position of acting director of the FAA, and the first female to do so.
She saw the potential of a lobbying career and got her first lobbying performance with the Air Transportation Association, and has developed big boy clients such as American Airlines, Boeing, Lockheed and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Tom and Linda make quite a team and that strong combination seems to be working for them.
Author's note: Thought highly in the beltway does not equate to Obama turning a blind eye to the promises he made to the American people, and these broken promises are adding up and noticed.
Obama did keep one promise however, and Soros took that to the bank recently, selling a portion of Petrobras. They communicated before hand, must have, or why would Soros buy into Petrobras just two weeks before Obama gave 2 billion borrowed from China with our credit to build an offshore oil infrastructure for Brazil? If that isn't insider information, what is?
If we had a media that wasn't bought and paid for, like our lobbyists, like our government, they would have reported that with much enthusiasm. Fear for their job, and the lack of ethics and bawlz are the real reasons. Investigative reporting and a free press is anemic, and few have the intestinal fortitude to tell both sides. Doing that would be bad for business, and bad for a career.
Some might argue it no longer matters, as only 3 percent of Americans now read books. Newspapers cater to their advertisers and not truth, and mandates writers to inscribe their words for a sixth grade mentality. We are indeed a product of our environment, but surely, the past does not necessarily equal the future. One hope is that the man on the sofa gets off his duff and tries to learn what America is turning into, who he is in the grand scheme of things, and tries to make a difference. Unfortunately he did not pay attention in history class and knows little or nothing of what made America great, and what is failing us now. If he goes into the bathroom and looks at himself in the mirror, he will see the greatest of all America's failures, himself.
Crying about it does nothing. Suck it up fat boy.
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