Obama Staffers Profit from Obama Health Care Plan (Axelrod consulting firm gets big contracts)

American Spectator
8.23.09 @ 6:17AM
By Doug Bandow

It turns out that President Barack "Change" Obama isn't changing things that much after all. At least not for David Axelfod, who appears to be playing the classic Washington insider's game for fun and profit....

While Axelrod worked behind the scenes to craft policy that would lead to a government overhaul of the medical industry, his firm in Chicago lobbied special interest groups to earn massive media contracts that would help dictate political discourse during the debate.... Obama's efforts to push his health care reform agenda have created a "financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected" to the President and Axelrod....

Axelrod ....will draw $2 million from the firm over the next four years.

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NOTE: Democrats pulled their scam in 2006 and 2008 that the Republicans were the Party of Corruption while pretending to be squeaky clean knowing full well it was a lie. Sad part is that voters not only bought their scam about corruption but bought their scam that Blue Dogs were Conservative. At best there may be one or two fairly Conservative Blue Dogs but a 72 ACU rating is not a conservative. The MODERATE to LIBERAL label applies to most of them.

Right now there are 15 Ethics violations in the Congress being investigated and 11 of them are Democrats. I expect any Republican who is guilty to resign immediately. As we saw with Cong Rangle, nothing ever happens to Democrats when they break the rules/law. It is OK -- to be expected -- he didn't understand the rules/law. If that is the case, then maybe it is time for him to resign if after all his years in office since he doesn't understand, because he should have them memorized. What a crock.

Then we have the long list of people in this Administration that didn't see the necessity of filing and paying their income tax. How did they get by with it all those years when IRS comes after the Middle Class to audit?

What do you think would have happened if Karl Rove had done this? Every major news outlet in the Country would have been leading off their news and headlines in the paper with the story. In my life I have never seen such blantant disregard for the truth when it comes to this Administration by not only the mainstream media but by some local media outlets that cannot think for themselves. Every last media outlet should be shouting at the top of their lungs for an investigation. What do we have? Crickets chirping.