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Posted 03/15/2012
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‘I’m About to Earmark This Cake for My Mouth’

S#@* lobbyists say

There are 12,200 registered lobbyists in Washington, D.C. right now. And they earn $3.3 billion each year influencing Congress – mostly by way of talking with a silver tongue.

Our friends at SofaPundit.com, Ryan and Sean Kleier, were incensed by the undue role lobbyists have over democracy, so they applied for a Fund for the Republic grant and got one. We liked their previous work so much that we asked them to make a video about the S#!@ lobbyists say to get their way in Washington.

Yeah, yeah, we know the S#!@ people say trend is SOOOO last month… but Sean & Ryan’s work is just too good not to share.

For more ridiculous things REAL lobbyist say, click here.

Suzanne Merkelson is the Associate Web Editor for United Republic, where she curates and comments on the day’s top money-in-politics news. She previously produced web content for Foreign Policy magazine and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic, among others.

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KDIB7QKO6SEHSAUGMRDHYEVVNM linda

    This is so sad but so true

  • Rufus

    Is there a point in trying to “reverse” anything? We most likely can’t change the corporatists’ government at all.
    There needs to be a new People’s Government, which coexists alongside the corporate-occupied government.
    It is wiser and easier to just start a new government and thereby not delay helping people.

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