Lots of lobbying going on in DC

Which industries spent the most money lobbying Congress in the first three months of 2017?



I found this graph at The Conservative Treehouse, where Sundance continually tries to educate us on how the DC swamp works. Rather than having two political parties, Sundance believes we have a UniParty, which does the bidding of the people who finance their re-election campaigns.

Furthermore, Sundance believes that the whole Obamacare debate is

all a legislative ruse. Hundreds of millions have been poured into congress to purchase the original ObamaCare bill and all of the subsequent downstream consequences therein. The people who paid that money will not allow removal. It’s really that simple.

Why does K-Street want ObamaCare to remain? Because it was designed to fail and lead to an eventual bipartisan (UniParty created) single-payer system. What the Health Industry lobbyists -who sold the construct- do not want is private market healthcare.

Read more here.

To read more about current statistics of who is spending how much in money for politics, go here.

The DC Quagmire

At The Conservative Treehouse, Sundance continues his effort to educate us on how the DC legislative system works.

♦The “Associated American Southern Border Wall and Security Builders” – special interest and lobbying group – simply doesn’t exist. Nor are there any entities creating legal briefs (bills) to facilitate the southern border wall construction.

♦There is no “Associated Illegal Immigrant and Deportation Enforcement” group lobbying for the removal of undocumented illegal aliens; or writing legislation to fast-track deportation of illegal aliens.

♦There’s also no official corporate political action committee or group office on K-Street creating legislation to repeal ObamaCare, or lobby for the removal of government interventionism into the healthcare system. etc.

...So the next obvious question is: what can be done about it?

The only viable solution, under the current system in place, is for the Trump Administration to generate their own legislative product to deliver to congress for passage. It sounds weird, but essentially that appears to be what is taking place right now with the White House staffing up with their own groups of bill authors, constructionists and administration lobbyists.

President Trump’s team will create the legislative product, and hopefully the republican controlled house and senate will pass it.

However, even this process also runs head first into the positions of the UniParty.

Example: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross sends the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation a statutorily required “letter of intent” to renegotiate NAFTA (North American Free Trade Association) mid-March, and the Republican Committee Chairman John Thune doesn’t accept it. (Today is 4/28/17).

Now what? The GOP wing of the UniParty is beholden to lobbying interests (U.S. CoC) who are adverse to NAFTA renegotiation.

...This example is not even a legislative product that needs a vote. This example is simply a statutorily required notification that requires being accepted.

The White House paying for their own staff to hire outside people to write legislation because congress doesn’t have an ideological enterprise to create their own is what has lead to this ridiculous situation we are in right now.

This DC quagmire might improve over time as new enterprises (legislation builders) move into DC to do work with a more favorable ideological outlook in-line with the new administration. But in the interim nothing is getting done, the simple tasks of budgets are at loggerheads, and time is wasting.

Read more here.