The most disappointing part of this story is that one of the iconic promises made by Obama, that fuelled the `yes we can`change and hope `rocket`, was to strictly limit lobbyist access to Congress and the White House. There can be no doubt that you need experts to draft legislation, and I also have no doubts that some of the best minds on the subject are currently employed as lobbyists, but there is a simple solution. If you end lobbyist access to government, then the best and the brightest will have to get real jobs as consultants and in the `brightest minds`industries, that are affiliated with the `Green` objective. Then, as INDUSTRY or SECTOR experts, their talents can be drawn upon, and even contracted, to aid in the development of legislation. One might ask, where would all the lobbyists go and work. If `green`consulting jobs are not a real industry supported by a complex of careers and jobs, then one might wonder why its the single greatest driving factor in government policy today. Maybe that is the entire goal of the `green`movement and their various `cap and trade`and `carbon tax`initiatives. To develop an ECO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX similar to the military industrial complex, and to drive the critical mass required to initiate a self sustaining perpetuity. Once the ball gets rolling, there will be no looking back. We are witnessing the genesis of a new post-industrial economy. One that could quite likely result in the single largest wealth transfer, from the rich countries, to the poor, in human history. Get you front seat tickets right now!
Democratic lawmakers who spent much of the Bush administration blasting officials for letting energy lobbyists write national policy have turned to a coalition of business and environmental groups to help draft their own sweeping climate bill.
And one little-noticed provision of the draft bill would give one of the coalition’s co-founders a lucrative exemption on a coal-fired project it is building.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, both of California, were among the Democrats — then in the minority — who slammed Vice President Dick Cheney for holding closed-door meetings to draft energy policy early in the Bush administration.
Republicans “invited energy lobbyists to write the energy bill that gouges consumers with big payoffs to Big Gas and Big Oil,” Mrs. Pelosi said in 2005. “They have turned Washington, D.C., into an oil and gas town when it is supposed to be the city of innovation, of new, of fresh ideas about our energy policy.”
But the sweeping climate bill Mr. Waxman and Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the panel’s key environmental subcommittee, introduced at the end of March includes a provision that benefits Duke Energy Corp., a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership USCAP, whose climate plan released in January the lawmakers have frequently called a “blueprint” for their climate legislation.
Read the rest of the story ” EXCLUSIVE: Lobbyists help Dems draft climate change bill – Washington Times.
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