"You Need a Lobbyist to Get a Meeting"

While the President and his minions demonize the private sector's profit-seeking for themselves and their stockholders, they apparently are quite comfortable taking meetings with their friends to hear how they should be spending our tax money.

Not withstanding the President's (former) pious inveighing against the power of lobbyists and "special interests," lobbyists and special interests will always be attracted to government, like bees to honey, so long as the government arrogates undue power to itself.  Hate the lobbyist culture in DC?  Devolve power to the states and reduce the power of the government.