Over at the Examiner, Tim Carney offers one more example of Obama paying off the “special interests and lobbyists” who got him to the White House.
Contained in the president’s budget plan is a hidden, multi-billion dollar bailout of General Electric, who spent $19 million lobbying in 2008 (and whose stock today is down 90 percent from its all-time high). Obama was the top recipient of GE money in the last cycle.