Once more: Stop the special-interest, speech-squelching DISCLOSE Act
They won’t take no for an answer. So we have to give them both barrels again.
On July 27, the Senate voted down the Democrats’ union-friendly, loophole-ridden, Orwellian-titled DISCLOSE Act. The bogus campaign finance reform bill was, as Sen. Mitch McConnell put it, a “transparent attempt to rig fall elections” that was written “behind closed doors” with help from lobbyists and riddled with political carve-outs for labor and other deep-pocketed organizations. Now, the hide-and-seek hypocrites on the Hill have resurrected their union pay-off.
Priorities, you know.
Hapless Harry Reid is leading the charge:
Democrats plan to rally their troops for the final stretch of the campaign season by bringing up a campaign-finance transparency bill.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) on Tuesday announced plans for a last-ditch vote on the measure, dubbed the Disclose Act. A vote on the bill is expected Thursday.
The legislation is intended to roll back a Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year that lifted spending restrictions on political advertisements by corporations and unions. The bill would require them to disclose the financial backers of a political advertisement within the message.
Other, more controversial provisions in the measure include prohibitions on political spending by companies with 20 percent or more foreign ownership and restrictions on ads by some government contractors.
The vote is designed to crank up the pressure on Maine GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, two longtime champions of greater limits on campaign finance.
Collins and Snowe voted no in July. The Democrats have changed nothing in the bill to address their concerns.
FYI:
In the past week, Senate Democrats considered a bare-bones strategy for the measure that would involve stripping the bill down to just the disclosure requirements, effectively setting up a vote for or against transparency.
With time running out before Senate heads out of town, however, leaders have decided to begin debate with the bill they voted on before the August recess. That vote attracted 58 votes in the Senate, two shy of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was absent the day of the vote and has told watchdogs he will vote in favor of the bill, so supporters need to flip just one of Maine’s senators to break the filibuster.
Time for Operation Buck Up Maine:
Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417
Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883
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OMG, this little slug slime dingy is on a roll this week, isn’t he? I wonder what else he will drag out before they leave dc?
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Which is why, in a nutshell, they have to be put back into the minority. The only way to stop them is to deny them the ability to set the agenda.
I give Reid credit, though, for his adherence to the obnoxious salesman’s creed:
“‘No’ simply means that I haven’t found the right approach yet.”
This is huge because it is a “heads I win, tails you lose” gambit by the Marxian Democrats – once again. They seem bent on constantly stacking political decks in their favor with obvious disregard for the 1st Amendment. On top of that they are directly attacking the most recent SCOTUS decision on the subject. This lawlessness has got to be loudly and persistently exposed to the public.
It’s clear to me that Democrats find this whole Constitution thingy to be a gross inconvenience to them. Rule by dictat is more to their liking.
From Daily Show via Breitbart, a little union comic relief.
Harry would be nicknamed “Caddilac Man”
Salesman Of The Year, if he used the same tenacity selling GM products!
If I remember correctly, the bill would require this disclosure a ridiculous number of times during the spot, leaving almost no time for the actual message. This is not-so-backdoor political speech censorship.
Yup, they won’t take no for an answer. They have to get it done before 2 elections are decided in nov, DE and WV. The candidates will be seated immediately. That is why the media can’t have Christine win. WV may well be a R victory.
I think I’ll go into the “dummy political activism” business.
Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but if it was unconstitutional earlier this year, wouldn’t it still be unconstitutional now?
So I guess 60 is the new 51?
Their once in a lifetime window of opportunity is about to slam shut and they know it. What this indicates to me, if I am correct, BIG IF, is that there may be no appetite for this kind of thing in the lame duck session.
If so these are the last gasps of a dying Democrat plurality. Let’s pray the voters put them DEEP in minority status.
What do others think?
This is just a desperate attempt by Democrats to change the subject back to “those obstructionist Republicans”. What they can’t seem to grasp is that America is saying “Hell no!” to all of these bills. Grasping at straws. It’s all about disconnected messaging.
I’m sure it is giving some of them hope (in the absence of doing nothing) but all they are doing is making things even worse for themselves. They are putting on display one more time the very things that people are upset about.
Given the Cadillac panache, I might be persuaded to listen to Harry make a sales pitch for one. However, he is more likely to charge you for a “Caddy” and then deliver a Trabant.
RINOs are a bit slow getting the message.
Flyoverman,
Here are my thoughts…
The lame duck session is a major issue, and it’s why we should be doing everything in our power to win the races that will seat the Senator immediately, to serve during the lame duck session, and ensure our ability to filibuster even if we lose the support of one or two Republican Senators. Consider it “insurance”.
To the best of my knowledge, that includes the races to fill the spots currently filled by temporary appoinments, for the vacancies created by:
The importance of winning the seat formerly held by Joe Biden is just one more reason why the Republicans who don’t like Christine O’Donnell should either find something good to say about her or just shut their mouths. The choice is now between a Constitutional Conservative and a Harry Reid’s “pet”.
It’s time for unity on the right, against the far left while the far left still has control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency.
What about Scott Brown?
Are we sure of where he stands, and that he wouldn’t flip?
Electing Brown was grasping for straws in the first place. He never promised anything other than to be the 41st vote against Obamacare, which turned out to be worthless. We’re stuck with him, just like we’re stuck with Snowe, Collins, Voinovich and yes, McCain.
Speaking of GM, has anyone caught the voiceover for the new Cruze ads? George Clooney. I wonder how much stimulous money they are feeding their “pet.” I stopped going to his movies because of his politics- it seems a lot of people have as well, although maybe not for the politics. How fast did Mr. Fox go to DVD?
Harry Reid is the slimiest, most disgusting bastard in Congress. I will be SO happy to see him go down in November. I don’t want him to simply lose the election. I want him tried for treason against the American People. Only then will justice be served.
You forgot Michael Bennet in Colorado, who was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar who became Interior Secretary.
I know it would meet resistance from both Rinos and Demwits but at some point we will need to make it illegal to take any kind of contributions from lobbyists and those they work for. Every bad bill that’s been introduced for the past 30+ years has been written or co-authored by these people that are answerable to no one. We’re told both houses depend on their input as our elected wouldn’t know some of the finer points of an issue without them. That’s bull pucky and we can thank them for everything that’s restrictive in our lives today. You place a monetary restriction on their ‘free’ advice and they’d disappear like the bedbugs they are. Oh, they’ll still suck your blood but they’ll not take such a huge bite.
Whiny socialists always trying to destroy any competition.
If they were serious about this, Urkel would have had proper security on his campaign fund raising web site.
If they were serious about this, they wouldn’t restrict donations from only a few contractors.
The left could care less about this since they would break the law any way they need to in order to win.
Their only care about this is to use this law as a club against Republicans or corporations who favor Republicans.
So much for their concern about “settled law” or precedents.
This is but the latest attempt to throw as much crap on th wall as possible and make it stick. Knowing full well they are going down, these dirty Socialist Democrats are going to try and destroy our system as much as they can. The incoming Congress will have a hell of a time cleaning this up, I hope they clean it up. But, with all their time taken up cleaning up the mess, they will not have a lot of time to pass new bills and with this said – look out for the Socialist Media as well as the Socialist Democrats to start screaming about a do nothing Congress.
No mention of the DISCLOSE Act on Fox today. All they’re talking about is the GOP’s “Pledge to America.”
Did anyone else notice Fox’s non-reporting of Dingy Harry’s attempt to attach his DREAM Act to the defense bill? They focused on “Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell” instead.
No surprise to me, but obviously “We report; you decide” doesn’t apply to illegal alien issues. Too many people still rely on Fox for news, but they have an agenda just like the rest of the MSM.
American People: the ECONOMY!
Harry: Amnesty and Gays.
American People: the ECONOMY!
Harry: Political speech censorship.
American People: the ECONOMY!
Harry: Kristen Gillibrand is HAWT!
This is the most hypocritical bill ever presented before congress. To be set to receive 80 million dollars from the afl-cio and propose that businesses can’t give 80 million bucks to the republicans is the epitome of chutzpah.
I just got word that Teamster rank and file are voting Republican in this election. They are tired of the crap the Dems and Obama have been feeding them. There is a disconnect between union members and union leaders.
So Congress can roll back a decision by SCOTUS on political spending restrictions but they can’t roll back Roe v Wade. Got it. Just wanted to be sure of the double-standard the democrats set for themselves.
This is going to be a lively lame duck session.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but couldn’t groups just form a front organization to channel the funds. ACORN had dozens of “names” for their PAC funds – i.e. Project Vote etc.
And this indeed seems to be an in your face slam at SCOTUS.
Breitbart nails another one. Good job by the reporter, if the LSM was like that there would be very few democrats.
that pretty well says it all, unions are liars, hypocrites that could careless about their members after they get their money.
Com’ on union people wake up to reality.
Why are lobbyists not banned from Congress, they do not represent free speech, their speech is paid for, quite highly I might add…how does paid for speech come under the 1st amendment?