So when people who used to be professionally associated with Fred Thompson started saying that the presidential candidate had done lobbying work to loosen federal rules on abortion, Thompson reacted fast. He sent out a spokesperson to report in angry tones,
There’s no documents to prove it, there’s no billing records, and Thompson says he has no recollection of it, says it didn’t happen,
Oh, but dearie me, it turns out there are documents to prove it, there are billing records, and it did happen. Fred Thompson lobbied the White House three times to loosen federal regulations on abortion.
There’s no legal problem with what Fred Thompson did. He worked as a lobbyist for years and years, before and after his one Senate term, and lobbyists lobby. That’s what they do. No, what’s interesting to me is how ashamed Fred Thompson seems to be of his own work, so ashamed (or is it scared?) that it might come out he favored a rule letting doctors talk to their patients that he sent out a spokesman to put up a fake styrofoam stonewall about it.
Does Fred Thompson think he was so wrong to lobby for a rule to let doctors and patients speak to each other? Or does he think his Republican political base is so zealously irrational that it will punish him for it?
