By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--April 17, 2013
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(c) The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall include any activity to advocate or promote any proposed, pending or future Federal, State or local tax increase, or any proposed, pending, or future requirement or restriction on any legal consumer product, including its sale or marketing, including but not limited to the advocacy or promotion of gun control.Again, now Obama wants a free hand to give free federal tax dollars to all his lobbyist pals. Barack Obama made a big show in 2008 of attacking evil Washington lobbyists. He campaigned on “change we could believe in” and aimed one of those things to believe in at eliminating lobbyists from Washington. Obama cruised into office with the claim that he’d have “the strictest ethics rules” against lobbyists of any president ever. Naturally, almost immediately he began to waive these “rules” to allow lobbyists into his administration. Over the ensuing years of his first term, Obama eliminated rule after rule that prevented lobbyists from joining his administration and he hired upwards to 20 lobbyists since he announced his "strictest rules" against hiring them. Now he is throwing away all pretense of being against lobbyists.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.