Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv

A Google search of those words provided an irresistible refresher. [Disclaimer: My personal comments are interspersed with facts and opinions plagiarized from my search.] Less than half an hour after Clinton was sworn in, it was decreed that his top aides would be banned from lobbying any agency of the U.S. government for five years after leaving office. They would be forever barred from lobbying on behalf of any foreign government. He wanted to “send a signal that we are going to change politics as usual.”

At the end of his administration, Clinton revoked his first executive order and lifted the phony ban on the future lobbying activities of his administration’s top officials.

White House mouthpiece Jake Siewert explained, in his usual disingenuous way, that the order was no longer needed because there wasn’t much question of Clinton appointees exerting influence with members of President Bush’s incoming administration.White House Counsel Beth Nolan went further: “The main policies underlying the executive order no longer apply when there is a change of parties at the White House. Because special access is no longer a concern, the special measures contained in the executive order are no longer necessary.”

Got it? The ban existed when there really weren't any former Clinton administration officials. Once there were a ton of them, the ban was lifted. You can't be too vigilant in regard to removing laws that are no longer needed.