I tuned into CNN to see what they were saying about the health care summit, which consumed a large portion of airtime today, and I find Cafferty trying to explain why Washington is broken by digging into the issue of lobbyists. Now there’s no denying that lobbyists are a huge problem in Washington, but I find it a bit odd that he chose today of all days to talk about lobbyists.
Clearly, the reason Washington is broken right now is that the Obama administration is pushing a very radical left wing agenda that even all of the democrats can’t get behind without huge bribes. Who needs a lobbyists when you’ve got Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi doling out large sums of money for votes. And let’s not forget the American people who do not support shoving this health care bill down our throats.
What I did find interesting about Cafferty’s analysis was that he claims that lobbyists killed the public option. Huh, I thought it was the American people. If you remember, the public option passed in the House, but the got stripped out in the Senate by members who were opposed to it even before it passed the House. It was a huge overreach and the American people made their voices known, loud and clear, with telephone calls, letters, and marches on Washington. What Cafferty is doing here is taking the emphasis off of this radical left wing agenda and blaming lobbyists for the Democrats inability to pass it. It’s almost like he’s making Washington the victim of lobbyists. Oh, those poor democrats, chained down by lobbyists who probably kept them in a dungeon with little food or water until they decided to take the public option out. What will they do next…
But if lobbyists have done all he accuses them of, then why wouldn’t he want to show this?
I guess he doesn’t want to show Obama in a bad light. I mean, he’s seen what Obama does to news organizations that show him in a ‘bad light’. No, the bad influence that lobbyists have on Washington could never be blamed on a man who didn’t mind making deals with them to get health care passed. Let’s just forget that old campaign promise clip and move on. Nothing to see here.