Post Tagged with: "lobbyist"

October 14, 2010 07:10

New Obama appointee had role in housing crisis

Former Fannie Mae lobbyist and now National Security Adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, worked to help Barney Frank, Obama and others protect Fannie from calls for additional oversight.

February 3, 2010 05:54

Obama makes a mockery of his own lobbyist ban

That President Obama would say, “we’ve excluded lobbyists,” when he really meant, “we’ve included them, too,” tells us something more surprising: That he’s willing to mislead us, as long as he’s left himself a semantic back door to escape through if he gets called out.