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SCOTUS strikes down maximum contribution limits

I like this article. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mega-donors-are-now-more-important-than-most-politicians/360192/

What Mother Jones proved by exposing Mitt Romney’s now-infamous 47 percent comment in 2012, and Huffington Post proved by revealing Barack Obama’s “cling to guns or religion” line in 2008, is that politicians offer their benefactors a candor they would never offer the public at large. This gap between the private and public campaigns must be closed. Every time a mega-donor hosts a fundraiser for a politician, journalists should do everything they legally and ethically can to find out what transpired. When television stations and op-ed pages give Beltway pseudo-scholars a platform, they should identify the mega-donors who pay their salaries. It’s relevant that Adelson, who helps fund the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies—a hawkish think tank whose scholars say new sanctions will help avert war with Iran—has called for nuking that country. It’s relevant that the Koch brothers fund some of the country’s fiercest climate-change deniers while Koch Industries ranks among the nation’s top air polluters.
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Charles Koch, neighborhood patriot watchdog protecting freedoms while being attacked from all sides. Poor fellow.

"Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.

Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) "

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286
 
WFFaithful said:
Charles Koch, neighborhood patriot watchdog protecting freedoms while being attacked from all sides. Poor fellow.

"Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.

Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) "

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286
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If your character is being attacked daily, maybe that says something less about the attackers and more about your character.
 
WFFaithful said:
Charles Koch, neighborhood patriot watchdog protecting freedoms while being attacked from all sides. Poor fellow.

"Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.

Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) "

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286
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Koch: employs 47,000 people carefully organized and managed for the purpose of collectively making money for the Koch Brothers. Despises collective action for the purpose of making life better for anyone else.
 
Yet George Soros doesn't require his pound of flesh? Nor does all the Wall Street money that Obama has gladly taken in the last two elections.

Bringing up bipartisan examples of this blatant corruption would be a lot more productive.
 
I just found out that Americans for Prosperity is a non-partisan organization that's soul purpose is to generate an open and intelligent debate on national issues. Their spokesman actually claimed this on live TV. They also don't speak for the Republican party or the Tea Party.
 
BillBrasky said:
Yet George Soros doesn't require his pound of flesh? Nor does all the Wall Street money that Obama has gladly taken in the last two elections.

Bringing up bipartisan examples of this blatant corruption would be a lot more productive.
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Perhaps Obama's biggest failure.
 
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