[THOUTHCAW]

Examples abound.. But let's just take this guy, for example.. Aubrey McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy. (The Natural Gas, fracking guys)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...pinion_LEADTop

He's wildly successful and he's helped drive a Natural Gas boom in this country that will help drive it for decades. That's good, right? Conservative, right? Markets are good, right? He's riding high right now.. as is the entire industry. Risk and reward is good, right? We're okay so far, right?

Well, let me tell you what he's also done.

Before he was riding high, he got into bed with T Boone Pickens for years, in an attempt to get natural gas subsidized by taxpayers for use in cars and trucks.

He joined with the Sierra Club to try to knock out coal power, because it benefits the gas industry if they fail.

He gave up that fight because he won with fracking (As opposed to lobbying his way into all our pockets) and defeated coal.

Now that he's won, he says he doesn't care if there's regulations or a temporary ban on the practice.. Even for a "Year or more" Why? Because that'll "send gas prices soaring" along with his company's share prices.

He admits his alignment with the green interests had little to do with Climate change.. We're not causing that. He just jumped the green bandwagon because it was expedient. He thinks AGW is bunk.

He then goes on to badmouth green groups and the President for nixing the keystone pipeline.. Saying, in effect, that it was OMG STUPID! And Those damn greenies have too much power! He rips Obama a new ass for attempting to cause Americans to pay more for gasoline, and to favor Asia over his own country.. But his attitude was much different when he was trying to get the greens and the Federal Government to outlaw the cheap, reliable Coal he couldn't compete with. Right?

He then rips the President as a gross hypocrite for his speech in front of those pipes, shortly after cancelling Keystone.. But him? Hey, he's not a hypocrite.. He's just a businessman.

Related article:

Pharma, Utilities and Big Ag Lead Lobbying in 2012

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012...4My7vQg.reddit

Pharmaceuticals, utilities and big agriculture have led the lobbying charge so far this year, according to preliminary figures from latest lobbying disclosures. The pharmaceutical industry as a whole spent $69.6 million on lobbying in the first three months alone, while electrical utilities spent $43.3 million. The agricultural services industry - which includes heavy hitters like Monsanto, the American Farm Bureau and Archer Daniels Midland - spent far less, only about $12.9 million, but that represented a 48 percent increase over its lobbying in the final three months of 2011.

[PerfectCreditForYou]

The 10 square miles of DC should be declared a corporation lobby free zone.

[avaicavum]

AN AFRICAN ANGELUS...
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RAILROAD INTERESTS LOBBIED FOR THE WINDFALL PROFITS TAX...

BECAUSE THE RECKONED IT WOULD HURT THE TRUCKERS.


THAT'S LOW-DOWN AND UN-PRINCIPLED.

[Suvuseh]

AN AFRICAN ANGELUS...
http://youtu.be/_LBmUwi6mEo
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GAS PRICES ARE HURTING CHESAPEAKE.

[sarasaraseda]

AN AFRICAN ANGELUS...
http://youtu.be/_LBmUwi6mEo
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MCLENDON ASIDE.... AND BOONE & THE REST OF THE TOADIES AND

WOULD-BE TOADIES....

WE HAVE A ROTTEN CONGRESS.


..AND WE HAD BETTER ADDRESS THAT ISSUE, BECAUSE

IT MATTERS FAR MORE THAN WHETHER AUBREY IS A SON OF A BITCH...


OR WHETHER OBAMA IS A SON OF A BITCH, FOR THAT MATTER.

[Gastonleruanich]

CHESAPEAKE HAS A LOT OF EXPENSIVE GAS.


...IN A FLACCID MARKET.

[xsexymasterix]

THEY'RE NOT MUCH BETTER OFF THAN THE WINDMILL PEOPLE.

[chuecaloversvvp]

WE DON'T HAVE MUCH OF AN ECONOMY ANY MORE.

WE HAVE AN ASS-LICK COURT IN DC AND A BUNCH

OF FLACKS JOSTLING FOR FAVORS.


THEY GO WHERE THE MONEY IS....



HUGE PILES OF IT.

[petrarkaponye]

WE HAVE ALLOWED THE PRE-REVOLUTION VERSAILLES

COURT TO BE REINCARNATED IN OUR CAPITAL.

[lesso73]

I wouldn't put it past a prick like this guy to run to the government to BEG them to enact a fracking ban..

And I wouldn't put it past them to do it, for a price..

And there's thousands of guys like this..

If the Federal government were going to forcibly head chip us all, he'd try to invest in it.. If he owned a company that made head chips, he'd lobby them to do it.

The whole thing resembles one big racket for anyone with the price of admission..

[Nurfzerne]

I can articulate it, at least for myself. Anyone with half a conscience understands that it isn't necessary to succeed at someone else's expense. A person of integrity doesn't achieve prosperity by trammeling another's opportunities. In fact, the most ethical (and ultimately most sustainable) pursuit of prosperity encourages and bolsters the prosperity of the entire community.

Who was it that said, "The problem with capitalism is capitalists"?

[Feflyinvelf]

The constitution..

[AbeldeldepBug]

I can articulate it, at least for myself. Anyone with half a conscience understands that it isn't necessary to succeed at someone else's expense. A person of integrity doesn't achieve prosperity by trammeling another's opportunities. In fact, the most ethical (and ultimately most sustainable) pursuit of prosperity encourages and bolsters the prosperity of the entire community.

Who was it that said, "The problem with capitalism is capitalists"?

That's an excellent way to put it.. I was just going to call him a dick.

[TimoPizaz]

That works too.

[strongjannabiz]

Part of the problem is they can go to dc and buy this power in the first place..

Our Constitutional limits would AT LEAST bounce this back to the states and localities.

The other problem is, they're all a bunch of dicks.

[antipenq]

AN AFRICAN ANGELUS...
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THE COLLECTIVISTS HAVE THE BIGGEST BODY PILES, BY FAR.


TYRANNY BREEDS CORRUPTION... WHICH FEEDS ON ITSELF.



GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ALWAYS SHORT OF CASH...


ALWAYS THE SUPPLICANT.

[Ruilnasr]

Government should always be deprived of the funds sufficient for mischief.

[Rupeviv]

Yeah, this guy is an asshole. Regardless of what party he gives his money to, he's an asshole. These big-business/big-government leeches aren't your friend. They don't care about you. They only care about getting to the top by any means possible. It pisses me off that all corporations get lumped in with groups like this. This guy is a shameless rent-seeker when it suits him, and an unethical piece of shit for funding eco-nazis to pound his opposition. I hope his company craters on his watch and he's drummed out of corporate America. Fuck him and everybody who knows him.

[Oberjej]

The problem is there's a bunch of guys just like him.. GE comes to mind.

And they've got enough money to buy their way through DC.

[Adimonnna]

AN AFRICAN ANGELUS...
http://youtu.be/_LBmUwi6mEo
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THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS I WON'T DO FOR MONEY.



I THINK THATS TRUE OF MOST PEOPLE.


...BUT NOT EVERYONE.