Saturday, March 20, 2010

Industry interests are not in their "twilight"

Glenn Greenwald from Salon demolishes a leading mainstream propaganda piece by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein who "trumpets what he calls the 'Twilight of the Interest Groups' reflected by likely passage of the health care bill." Instead Greenwald argues:
...this bill was negotiated using the standard, secret, sleazy Beltway lobbyist/industry practices that candidate Obama frequently condemned and vowed to defeat.  And these industries extracted such huge benefits as a result of these secret deals -- a bill shaped to their liking and profit objectives -- that they are essentially in favor of it.