{"id":243700,"date":"2010-01-28T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64037"},"modified":"2010-01-28T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:42:02","slug":"obama-rips-lobbyists-by-night-invites-them-for-private-briefing-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243700","title":{"rendered":"Obama Rips Lobbyists by Night, Invites Them for Private Briefing by Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest<\/a> emails that the Hill article is a mischaracterization of the call:<\/em><\/p>\n

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I joined two of these calls. \u00a0The invite came to me through a progressive organization. \u00a0They were not secret. \u00a0They were not organized by the Treasury Dept. \u00a0There were no \u201clobbyists\u201d asking questions on the calls unless you consider progressive organizations that are C4s to be \u201clobbyists\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

The calls were following up with details on specific issue areas from last night\u2019s speech. \u00a0Nothing more.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been very critical of Obama in the past and continue to believe that having Geithner in the Cabinet undermines his Presidency and progressives. \u00a0But this story is completely false and is clearly intended to undermine the Obama Administration\u2019s credibility with progressives.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>They just can’t stop themselves<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After Obama rips lobbyists, K St. insiders get private briefings<\/h2>\n

A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama\u2019s administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday\u2019s State of the Union.<\/p>\n

The Treasury Department on Thursday morning invited selected individuals to \u201ca series of conference calls with senior Obama administration officials to discuss key aspects of the State of the Union address.”<\/p>\n

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The invitation, which is addressed to \u201cFriends,\u201d emphasizes in bold and italics that \u201cthis call is for background information only and not intended for press purposes.\u201d It advises callers to tell the operator \u201cyou\u2019re joining the \u2018White House Briefing Call.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Apparently everyone in the White House learned the wrong lesson from the Massachusetts election. It’s not that the country loves Republicans, it’s that they hate DC insider deal making. You can’t claim that you’ll<\/a> “end the outsized influence of lobbyists” one night and then give them exclusive access you consciously try to hide from the press the next day, and expect that people will find it credible.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Dave Johnson from Seeing the Forest emails that the Hill article is a mischaracterization of the call: I joined two of these calls. \u00a0The invite came to me through a progressive organization. \u00a0They were not secret. \u00a0They were not organized by the Treasury Dept. \u00a0There were no \u201clobbyists\u201d asking questions on the calls unless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}