I think “huddled with lobbyists” could become this election season’s “intercepted by warlords.” SNL needs to get on it.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It’s one thing to turn to lobbyists to write policy; I don’t have a problem with that, it just depends on the lobbyist. No one can be an expert on everything. But to write your party’s platform? That’s just pathetic.
I can see a skit where John Boehner gives a press conference and, after every question, he pauses to huddle with lobbyists before answering. Or Romney. It works either way.
Isn’t that what it says on the Statue of Liberty? “Send us your huddled lobbyists, that they might inhale our freedom”
What’s more telling is that “huddled” is itself a euphemism for a process that increasingly involves pure puppetry and ventriloquism.