Point of Order has an interesting post about how former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson came to be hired by the Obama administration, notwithstanding his failure to get a waiver from an administration executive order.
Day: February 4, 2010
The lobbying campaign and the student loan business
The Times reports on a lobbying campaign undertaken by the student loan industry in response to proposals to end government subsidies. According to the article, “an aggressive lobbying campaign by the nation’s biggest student lenders has now put one of the White House’s signature plans in peril, with lenders using sit-downs with lawmakers, town-hall-style meetings […]
Crazed sheep ad going viral?
Okay, I still use Yahoo! email so I visit Yahoo! a lot, and today there’s a story about an ad I posted about this morning (screen capture below) after learning about it via Colin Delany’s e.politics site. The ad features what Delany calls “the Robot Sheep of Doom.” Read the Yahoo story (“Bizarre attack ad […]