SamSaid!

SPECIAL INTERESTS

During the early 2008 primary election campaigns, Obama, Edwards and Hillary practically salivated every time they turned a phrase about those evil, terrible, odious “special interests” in Washington DC. It is these organizations, they say, that are at the heart if the ills that plague us. Of course, these special interests, by definition, are lobbyists (some), and greedy money hungry companies or corporations. But just who really are these special interests?

Perhaps a key question is, aside from elected officials, “Who in Washinton is NOT a special interest?” Labor Unions? Sierra Club? ACLU? NAACP? NOW? Pro-choice? Anti-abortion pro life? NRA?? Green enviros?
Can anyone name an organization that espouses a cause that is NOT a special interest? Not hardly. All of the preceding examples qualify — eminently. They all are special interests. But the Dems don't like to concede that. They prefer to keep using their code words meaning, Oil, Steel, electronics, agribusisses, i.e., anyone in business to make money. Is George Soros a special interest? And if not, why not?

And when these Dems talk abiut creating more jobs, just who is going to hire people? And pay them? I think they know as much about economics as a pig knows about Sunday.

When any group of people tries to influence the vote of an elected offical, they become an interest group seeking to advance their own cause. But the Dems seek to have you believe that only they can identify the good ones from the bad ones. If a lobbyist is hired to support a Democrat program, that is OK, but when the lobbyist supports the cause of business, he (she) becomes evil and bad, bad, bad.

When I listen to these candidates and hear the term “special interests” I try to break the code to see exactly who they mean. If you really want to go to the heart of a prominent special imterest organization, the Trial Lawyers would be a good place to start. If the Dems really seek bi-partisanship,the Lawyers are the bullseye!!