lock the revolving door between corporate job and government job.....

expose what kind of financial windfall election to national office is....

end 'to big to fail'.....

start jailing rich crooks, not just poor ones.....

etc, etc, etc....

unions? by environmental groups? LGBT organizations? Cause they all hire lobbyists. And pay them.

Truth be told, we only dislike the lobbyists who work to promote policies we don't like. We pretend that the lobbyists who work for the causes we espouse don't exist. They may not be as high-powered or paid as much (tho I bet some are), but they exist. Do you think TAA would have been sunk yesterday if labor lobbyists hadn't been out there promising to end the tenure of any Democrat who voted 'yea'?

There are all kinds of lobbyists. We rightfully don't like the ones we don't like. But "lobbyist" is, in itself, a neutral term. Perhaps we should always qualify our concerns by speaking of "corporate lobbyists."

Lets not be naive. Obama never would push hard on it, and NO dem would even consider voting yes on it, if it weren't for corporations paying out legal bribes via their lobbyists. So to answer your first question: yes, I oppose all lobbyists equally.