Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dem. senators spent weekend with bank, energy, tobacco lobbyists

from Politico. The author contrasts the following rhetoric of NJ Senator Robert Menendez (chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) who has echoed the White House denunciation of "special interests" and "fat cats", with the guest list of the "winter retreat" at the Ritz Carlton South Beach Resort:
“In the upcoming elections, voters will face a choice between Republicans who are standing with Wall Street fat cats, bankers and insurance companies -- or Democrats who are working hard to clean up the mess we inherited by putting the people’s interests ahead of the special interests," Menendez said in a press release last Wednesday.