Our Congressmen and Women As Mouthpieces

One of the dirtiest secrets in Washington, DC is that most legislation is written by lobbyists. Environmental lobbyists sit in rooms with Congressional staffers and are probably re-working climate change legislation. Health care insurers are sitting closely with with Senate staffers strategizing how to re-work the House's health care bill that passed a week ago.

So it should not be a surprise that Genetech lobbyists wrote floor speeches for both Republican and Democratic Congressmen and Women to enter into the Congressional Record during the health care votes last week. Word for word that the corporate lobbyists wrote were entered into the record.

It's so surprising there has yet to be a revolution in this country. We are no longer that different than when King George "owned" this country. His courtesans whispered in his ears about great profits to be made in the new world, they controlled his reign and rule. Our "rulers" are not that much different.