Wolf on the Prowl

Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf is on warpath again versus beyond-the-pale lobbyists, such as Robert Cabelly of C/R International who recently agreed to lobby for Sudan's militant islamist government. Wolf entered extended remarks into the CR, and called on other Members to not take meetings from this lobbyist. Wolf has been to Sudan five times and also sent a letter on the lobby issue to the State Dept. He was fervent in his remarks:

First it was Patton, Boggs trying to polish the image of Saudi Arabia. Then we had Akin, Gump trying to assist China in buying a U.S. oil company. Now comes the shocking news that a Washington lobby shop has landed the Government of the Republic of Sudan as a client. Where will the lobbying wheel of fortune stop next?

The Government of Sudan has hired Mr. Robert J. Cabelly, managing director, C/R International, to lobby on its behalf. How can an American company use such bad judgment and represent a country whose leaders are suspected of organizing and arming militias to commit genocide? And why did the United States State Department sign-off on such a plan?

Why, indeed? If standard moral outrage is insufficient, we do currently have a black Christian woman SecState, and the primary victims of Darfur are black, Christian women and girls.

Various current legislation on this issue, including H. R. 1424, and 3127, and S. 1462 and 495, is bogged down due to two issues - role of U.S. military, and the disinterest of American Christians. None of these bill are Christian initiatives, but rather responses by War on Terror advocates to the obvious danger Sudan poses to greater Africa as a seed school.

But Wolf's point is a serious one. Darfur is a publicly declared state-sponsored Islamic jihad against a defenseless, largely Christian population, and we are letting the jihad-sponsoring goverment have a lobbyist in Congress?!

(Anyone lobbying on behalf of members of Al-Qaeda? Well, besides the ACLU, I mean. )

Wolf notes: "I would have hoped for more from the American government."

Well, yeah!