Obama and the special interests

Published December 12, 2011 5:00am ET



President Obama in his 60 Minutes interview aired Sunday night suggested that he hasn’t accomplished as much as his supporters had hoped, in part because of the “culture here in Washington, dominated by special interests.” He also suggested that he’s working on fixing that culture:

“reversing a culture here in Washington, dominated by special interests, it was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president.”

But, on net, Obama is taking us in reverse on this score. He isn’t reducing the dominance of special interests. He’s increasing the influence of special interests.

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