The voters vote and the lobbyist get the ear.

When are we going to realize our congressional leadership is beholding to the very rich?  Beholding to the very incorporated.  The very polluted.  The very unregulated.  The very self-serving.  The very lobbied.  When?  When will we realize this simple fact?  Huh?

And what this means, ladies and gentlemen, is they value their special interests more than their constituency.  Reelection money is more important than good laws or good government.  In other words, money talks.  Not only does money talk, it barks.  It bites.  Special interest money gets between you, me, and the voters best interest.  It separates us from good representation. 

Do you feel sorry for the special interests?  Does special interest feel sorry for you?  Not to likely. 

So, why do we continue to support the political partisans that take money for favors?  They easily take money from lobbyists and large corporate interest because they can’t raise their reelection campaign money otherwise.  Their valid talking points are few and far between.  Necessitating taking and accepting large cash donations (more like bribes) in order to save their failing reelection campaign.  Which means we get a mediocre representative without representation.  His or her reelection cause is to be reelected.  Just that simple.  Just a corporate automaton taking care of their corporate sugar daddies.  Is this the type of government you want?  Well, sorry to say, this is what we have now.  Should we continue to reelect them?  Lets hope like heck not.