MB Civic

Sirota was first to pick up this new development .. the hiring of the person (Fowler) who bears much of the responsibility for killing the public option and who is VP of the lobbying arm of Wellpoint to (as Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake puts it) “protect (cough) consumers and oversee companies like…WellPoint” — Glenn Greenwald also picked up this story and writes “Fowler is the very embodiment of the sleazy Revolving Door and lobbyist-dominated politics which candidate Barack Obama endlessly vowed to subvert” — Wheeler sums it up best: “It’s a nice trick: send your VP to write a law mandating that the middle class buy shitty products like yours, then watch that VP move into the executive branch to “oversee” the implementation of the law. What could go wrong?!?!” – mab .. read more