Am I the only one that finds it a bit odd that The Federal Reserve just sent a high paid lobbyist to Washington last week to begin lobbying against the passage of HR1207 "The Federal Reserve Transparency Act"?? Why would they be against a bill that requires them to be audited?? Hmmmmmm

To me it sounds like you are trying to justify President Obama's lying about taking money from lobbyists by saying all politicians lie and if you don't understand that, you are dumb.

Now, I agree that if you don’t understand politicians lie, you are naïve, but that doesn’t justify the lying.

On subject though, I find it amusing that everyone, on all sides of the political spectrum, complain about lobbyist. Off course, they complain about the OTHER guy’s lobbyists, and seek ways to weaken them, while strengthening their own. Thus, we never actually get any meaningful reform, because if you strengthen lobbyist powers, you strengthen them all, whether that was your intent or not.

The REAL answer to the lobbyist problems is, as usual, to follow the constitution as it was written. If we would decentralize our day to day governance back to the states and the local governments, and only allow the federal government to deal with what the constitution charges it to deal with, lobbyists would not be the problem they are today, because they would not be able to go to one place, the Federal Government, to get favorable laws passed.

i didn't mean that you were dumb. on the other hand, maybe you are dumb. is you hand raised?

This guy is the master of "doublethink". He's taken elevated it to "double-do". Vociferously denouncing the acceptance of money from lobbyists, while at the same time taking their money and justifying the acceptance of it. He's brilliant! Change we can believe in!

all of you who thought any politician would keep his promises, please raise your hands. now everybody else, laugh at them, because they're dumb.