Comment: This is not "standing up for what you believe in." 

This is more like "lobbying for funding my special interest". Just like a hundred other interest groups: "cut the other guy's money not mine", "increase the other guy's taxes not mine." Which is perfectly OK! That's politics!

Just don't give us this baloney and pretend you're operating on some higher virtuous principle than everyone else - that's kind of aggravating and if I were a legislator it would make me want to cut you more, not less.