Led by former Republican leader Dick Armey, the conservative group FreedomWorks has attacked the Washington establishment this year, challenging bailouts, health care legislation and other policies that violate the group’s free-market ideology.
“Free market ideology” = whatever groups give him money to say (insurance firms, finance companies). Unless I am mistaken “free market” doesn’t have to do thwarting competition, protecting large monopolistic enterprises and subsidizing them with government money.
But for more than six years, FreedomWorks’ own chairman flourished at the heart of that establishment, earning $750,000 a year to lobby for banks, green-energy producers and companies trying to shape the stimulus package that FreedomWorks opposed.
Some would call that dickish
Even Armey acknowledges that his lobbying career was part of a “curious model.” While FreedomWorks is often “antagonistic to politicians of both parties … the general disposition of the lobbyist is to be sweet to officeholders,” he said.
Curious, I have never seen the Liberty League, err, FreedomWorks rail against corrupt GOP?
“This is always a problem, and people have struggled with it in Washington,” the former North Texas representative said. “Few have mastered it as I have.”
Yes, you have attained nirvana has the most corrupt, despicable asshole in this country.
