Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey has stepped down from lobbying firm DLA Piper after the drug companies they lobby for spoke out against Armey's blatant resistance to any kind of health-care reform that will pressure private insurance with a public option.
See, now these drug companies are "all about" reform since the White House has clandestinely brokered an $80M deal with the industry to back the lukewarm reform that will inevitably come from Washington. That means Armey, and his FreedomWorks-touting cronyism, had to go.
Sorry Dick. You're no longer needed. But, you will be receiving a hefty check.
Meanwhile, check out Armey stuttering through a defense of killing reform on PBS Thursday night, I believe technically before he left DLA Piper:
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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