Bernie nails it.

[634-5789]

[brooklynite]

1. So, ban lobbyists?

Love to see how that's done constitutionally.

[634-5789]

3. How about LIMITING them? No more than 1 per shyster outfit.

[TexasTowelie]

5. Most likely a First Amendment violation.

Limiting free speech and the corporate-owned Supreme Court won't let that happen.

[brooklynite]

7. Nor would a liberal Supreme Court.

[Celerity]

6. Nice strawman.

[brooklynite]

13. Is Bernie Sanders proposing something else?

Please elaborate.

[Lunabell]

11. I didn't know lobbying was written about in the constitution.

Can you cite please?

[brooklynite]

12. Amendment 1...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

People have a right to influence policies made by Congress, both as individuals and as groups. They also have the right to hire people to assist in that endeavor.

[Lunabell]

14. Yeah, but corporations aren't people, right?

So, there's that.

[luv2fly]

15. It'd be a good start n/t

[brush]

2. Bernie wasn't my pick for pres but he's the right man for the position...

he's in now.

Go, Bernie. Use your platform.

[malaise]

4. How many work for M$Greedia?

Asking for a friend

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Faux pas]

9. DISGUSTIPATING

[betsuni]

10. "Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access. That's why lobbyists write

campaign checks. They're not bribes. They're grease. They enable those lobbyists to come to fundraisers, where they get to talk to you while you're trying to remember their names. Gross, right? And it is! I hear from a lot of lobbyists. And, yes, some of them are as transactional as you're imagining. But other, often the more effective ones, are actually passionate about the issue they're representing. And while lobbying -- and all the money associated with it -- offers lots of opportunities for corruption, lobbying itself isn't inherently corrupt." Al Franken

Lobbyists have corrupting superpowers? There are a lot of Pharma lobbyists so everyone in Congress is corrupt? A member of Congress listens to a lobbyist and is instantly mesmerized into doing whatever they say?

The Republican Party is why the U.S. doesn't have universal health care yet. It's a classic Democratic goal. Clinton administration tried, Obama administration tried, Biden administration will try.