All lobbyists are wh*res. They might not like that name but that is what they do and who they are. They seldom do anything that benefits the country as a whole, but rather always do something that benefits a particular company or group/industry (the elitists) while enriching themselves all at the taxpayer's expense. The country can no longer afford these tarts, the middle class backs are broken (financially) and there is no one left to pay the piper for this narrow and selfish legislative acts for the elite. It is time to give America back to the middle class who have worked and sacrified to make the country what it was 25 years ago before conservate elitism took foothold.

our constitution says that we can petition our representitives,but nowhere does it say it can be done with money.lobbying is nothing but"legal bribery"the whores are the politicians who take the money and gifts. the only way for an honest government isto put on a election ballot to ban any sort of lobbying.

Agreed. But, elitism has been around since man was "enlightened" with the idea of wealth. It will not go away easily, if at all.

Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.
Thomas Jefferson

“The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the ... people in the country have.”
Harry S Truman

"Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues."
David C. Korten (in his book, When Corporations Rule the World, 2001)

Lobbists should be outlawed. The are nothing but a bunch of high paid crooks, screwing over American in the name of capitalism.

Lobbyists facilitate the ATM machine of our Congress. Corporations run this country and are running into the ground while making unprecedented profits. In order to get re-elected, members of Congress have to raise big money and spend about 1/3 of their time doing this. We need campaign finance reform and lobbyists need to be eliminated.