The mainstream media woke up to the fact that while Fred Thompson played a district attorney on TV, he was working as a corporate shill as a D.C. lobbyist. USA Today wrote up a great story about how Thompson's corporate lobbying career could hurt him in his race. Given that corruption was the number one issue in the 2006 elections, you'd have to be brain-dead (or a quintessential Washington insider) to think a lobbyist could run for president with no questions from the public.
Hilariously, Mr. Thompson is now defending his shilling, saying that lobbying "an honorable endeavor that goes back to the beginnings of this republic." Look, just 'cause it's one of the oldest professions doesn't mean it's one of the noblest.
As if it couldn't get any sadder, it's becoming clear that this man doesn't understand he's not on contract with his corporate backers any more. He's already declared that his keystone policy proposal for his presidential campaign is cutting taxes for corporations. The U.S. has the second lowest effective corporate tax burden of any nation in the world. We've just witnessed seven years of tax cuts for the richest and deficits climbing into the trillions. There's a word for Fred Thompson's proposal. It's hubris. This man is so bought and paid for he thinks working for his corporate masters will pass muster in real America.
I hope you've gotten enough sleep, Fred. Your wake-up call is just about due.
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1. Hillary served on the Board of Directors of one of those evil, union-eschewing corporations known as Wal Mart.
What's your point?
Leo Pusateri at 5:34PM on Jun 8th 2007
2. MATT, YOU ARE SO LOST, FRED IS A WINNER AND IT SCARES YOU. HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT
COMAR at 5:51PM on Jun 8th 2007
3. WIMP
COMAR at 5:53PM on Jun 8th 2007
4. Fred Thompspn: THE Great White Joke!
Figgins at 5:57PM on Jun 8th 2007
5. Taxes looks like an area I disagree with Fred. I think business taxes should take over for individual taxes. Fred wants to lower business taxes, which probably means higher tax rates for people.
Steve Bonomo at 10:49PM on Jun 8th 2007
6. Fred will have to realize that no one will be writing his line unless actually becomes president. Now if the Bushies take up his cause, they may fork over the moulah. But then we will just have another Bushie running this country. 8 years is enough of this madness. He will be no different than Bush. None of the Republican candidates sound any different than Bush with the exception of Ron Paul.
Lynne at 11:50PM on Jun 8th 2007
7. Fred against Hillary. I love that match up. Guess who I'm for?
Robert O Neil at 2:18AM on Jun 9th 2007
8. Good God, Hurry up, Fred. You have a mandate to serve the people... a ground swell. I feel it !!! Protect us from Hillary. And from another four or eight years of Clintons. No more oral sex in the oval office !!! America needs your help. We need a true conservative who feels our pain. Someone who will assist Row Vs Wade in being overturned. Hillary wants us to become a socialistic country. That will be the end of America and the free enterprise system as we know it, if that woman is elected. We need Mr. Fred Thompson. Where are we going to move if Hillary is elected ??? Jamaica, Cancun??
Geegee Davis at 3:02AM on Jun 9th 2007
9. Fred, you are the man that America needs and we need you NOW!!
I really don't think Hilary would win without you, but we can't take that chance. We can't have Hilary "The Anti-Christ" as President
georgia at 9:55AM on Jun 9th 2007
10. Lobbying is the second oldest profession.
Peter King at 3:20PM on Jun 30th 2007
11. MATT- IT MAY BE YOU THAT NEEDS A WAKE-UP CALL. THE TAX CUTS WERE FOR EVERYONE THAT PAYS INCOME TAX, NOT JUST THE RICH (HOW DO YOU DEFINE RICH?) WE ALREADY HAVE A TAX SYSTEM THAT PUNISHES OVER-ACHIEVERS (THE RICH) WHILE REWARDING UNDER-ACHIEVERS (THE POOR). A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF INCOME EARNERS IN THIS COUNTRY (THE RICH) ALREADY BEAR THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE TAX BURDEN. WHY SHOULD THEY BE PUNISHED. INSTEAD OF DEMONIZING THEM YOU SHOULD THANK GOD FOR THEM. THEIR THE ONES WHO ARE THE ENTREPRENEURS, THE RISK TAKERS, THE ONES WHO GO THE EXTRA MILE, ETC. THE VAST MAJORITY OF RICH PEOPLE IN AMERICA GOT THAT WAY THRU HARD WORK, INVESTING, STARTING AND EXPANDING BUSINESSES, WHILE OVERCOMING THEIR FEAR OF FAILURE TO REACH FOR THEIR DREAMS. THEY CREATE JOBS AND INCREASE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED FREE ENTERPRISE- THE MORE ENTERPRISING YOU ARE THE MORE FREE YOU CAN BE. THE BUSH TAX CUTS JUMP-STARTED OUR ECONOMIC GROWTH, JUST LIKE THEY DID UNDER REAGAN AND JFK. ANYONE WHO THINKS BIG GOV'T IS THE ANSWER TO ALL OUR PROBLEMS IS SADLY MISTAKEN. LIBERAL AGENDAS OF THE DEMOCRATS (AND YOURS) COULD PROVE TO BE THE DOWNFALL OF OUR COUNTRY. CONSERVATIVE GOV'T AND A MAN LIKE FRED THOMPSON AT THE HELM CAN STRENGTHEN IT.
David Cochran at 1:22AM on Jun 10th 2007
12. Conservatives hate America. They are determined to bring America down and become like the Middle East. They want to dictate people's lives. They love Illegals as cheap illegal labor is great for their big businesses. They also want Osama to stay free, so they can keep using him politically. Filthy traitors.
TC at 2:17AM on Jun 10th 2007
13. I think FRED THOMPSON is the only hope we have to have a free America....he will put more jobs for the people of this county. He will listen to the people and be on their side. FREED THOMPSON is the right one for us and when he becomes PRESIDENT everyone will say YES...He is the MAN!!!!!!!!!!
Dee at 10:27AM on Jun 10th 2007
14. Anyone who supports billary,supports the fall of America and ill-legal aliens.Stupid comments like conservatives hate America just boggle the mind.Maybe a lindsy lohan night for him?Wake up America!We need Thompson to at least to make sense of this world again and to stop making people like the billary-popuar.Leftists are scared to death he ma win.They would then be exsposed as not liberals but the traitors they are and lovers of terrorism!
Thomas slater at 2:35AM on Jun 11th 2007
15. ALL YOU EVANGELICAL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS
ARE ALL BRAIN WASHED IF YOU THINK THIS GUY IS FLAWLESS....
CONSERVATIVE ...NO SUCH THING....
YOUR GROUP THE REASON FOR THE HOLY WAR IN USA
IF I HAD TO GO ..THATS THE END OF THE WORLD
I WOULDN'T GET ON YOUR BUS........
YOU PROTESTANTS ...JUST PROTEST ...WAY TOO MUCH...
PETER PANELLA at 6:07AM on Jun 11th 2007