2 Former Senators/Whores For $$$ ---Hired By Russia To Lobby AGAINST US Sanctions Against Russia

[kpete]

And the latest example of American patriotism

Gazprombank GPB (OJSC), a Russian bank targeted with sanctions by President Obama over the Ukraine crisis, has hired two former U.S. senators to lobby against those sanctions, according to a new disclosure filed with the Senate.

Gazprombank is controlled by Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom, the country’s largest gas producer; it supplies about a third of Europe’s natural gas.

In a filing submitted Friday and effective that day, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and former Senator John Breaux, D-La., are listed as the main lobbyists under the Gazprombank account for the firm Squire Patton Boggs, lobbying on “banking laws and regulations including applicable sanctions.”

Lotts name is especially outrageous given the number of times the GOP has accused Obama of being a traitor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/russian-bank-trent-lott_n_5754098.html

[Ilsa]

1. Lott is such a hypocrite and ass. nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. You mad, breaux?

See what I did there?

[riqster]

14. DUzy!

[Ilsa]

18. Oh Yeah!! LOL. nt

[spanone]

2. their loyalty is to the mighty dollar....nothing else matters

[TwilightGardener]

3. Now THAT is beyond belief.

Traitorous.

[Laurian]

4. Absolutely disgusting.

[Cha]

5. Trent Lott for Russia.. Putin and his supporters are in good hands...

[think]

6. For sale: 2 used US Senators. Bad credit. No credit. No problem....

[TransitJohn]

7. I'm surprised you haven't been alerted on

Whore is a term highly offensive to and derogatory towards women.

[groundloop]

12. I think the usage is appropriate

From vocabulary.com:

In the original sense, a whore is a prostitute: someone who has sex for money. The word has since broadened to mean anyone who is money-hungry.
Whores traditionally whored their bodies out for money. But today a whore can be a person that compromises himself in any kind of way for monetary gain. It's also a nasty thing to call someone (especially a woman) who has a lot of sex and is often used as a vulgar insult similar to bitch. It's not really an appropriate word to call someone, including actual prostitutes.


I'd say Trent Lott fits that description.

[TransitJohn]

13. So do a lot of other people who use the words appropriately in their own posts

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but get alert stalked for disagreeing with certain people.

[pennylane100]

26. I always thought that whores could be male or female.

[PeaceNikki]

28. I've alerted the grammar police since "whores for money" is redundant.

[rhett o rick]

8. k&r. Thanks for posting. nm

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Politicians lobby for the energy industry? Say it ain't so.

And, that's just the top 5.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E01

Top Recipients, 2013-2014

Candidate Office Amount

Cornyn, John (R-TX) Senate $757,681
Boehner, John (R-OH) House $590,939
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Senate $374,208
Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA) Senate $370,586
Gardner, Cory (R-CO) House $302,900

[EEO]

11. Uh, I'll take Treason for $1000.

What is the term that best describes what these former senators are doing?

[RB TexLa]

20. How is it treason to legally lobby the government?

[DavidDvorkin]

15. What are their DU names?

[navarth]

16. Ha!

Cutest post I've seen today. A good chuckle is good for my health. Thank you.

[whereisjustice]

17. hanging us with our own rope, in Lotts' case, lynching us with our own rope.

[Fred Sanders]

19. So America can impose economic sanctions on another country, but can not stop the same

country from lobbying against the same sanctions, lobbying in America, and hire former American government officials and politicians to help them?

Exceptional.

Who made the rules of this silly game anyway?

Can Iran hire these guys for the same purpose?

[salib]

21. Can Palestine?

Can Palestine hire former officials and politicians to lobby the US Govt?

Can China?

[Fred Sanders]

22. China has sanctions on it? And what does Palestine have to put sanctions on, not being a country.

[salib]

24. China because it opposes US sanctions against Russia

So is likely lobbying against them.

Palestine because many here might actually believe that it should not be able to lobby and others who would feel strongly it should be able to. It is a fulcrum upon which we can weigh what is a good idea.

Anyway, I think that a simple act of Congress (sanctions) should not be confused with freedom of expression (lobbying).

[geek tragedy]

25. corporations owned by corrupt foreign dictators and plutocrats are people, my friend nt

[OldRedneck]

23. Paging Dr. Guillotine . . . paging Dr. Guillotine . . .

Please report to K Street.

[zappaman]

27. I'll wait to see what RT says about this.

They are the only media that can be trusted.

[Blue_Tires]

29. I'm starting to understand why growing numbers on the left and right

love our new Russian overlords...