BREAKING NEWS: The U.S Chamber announced this morning plans to take its historically cross-eyed aim at the latest ill-advised lobby target, the EPA's ability to protect our air and our atmosphere. The US Chamber is rallying in support of Senator Mitch McConnell's Energy Tax Prevention Act , which would strip the EPA of its right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Not out of character, given the US Chamber's legacy of blocking any attempts to limit pollution or protect public health.
But this amendment is concealed in a larger small business bill, and just like the U.S Chamber, assumes to represent the interests of small businesses across the country. Click here to help us reach small businesses in your community that are ready to declare independence from the US Chamber's backward, dirty-money-driven position.
The Gang That Couldn't Lobby Straight
by Bill McKibben
What if I told you I'd found a political group that for a 100 years had managed to be absolutely right on every crucial political issue? A political lodestone, reliably pointing toward true policy north at every moment.
Sorry. But I have something almost as good: a group that manages to always get it wrong. The ultimate pie-in-the-face brigade, the gang that couldn't lobby straight.
From the outside, you'd think the U.S. Chamber of Commerce must know what it's doing. It's got a huge building right next to the White House. It
spends more money on political campaigning than the Republican and Democratic National Committees combined. It spends
more money on lobbying that the next five biggest lobbyists combined. And yet it has an unbroken record of error stretching back almost to its founding.
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on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 12:32 am.
