How the Obama Administration Screwed Its Biggest Campaign Contributors
September 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM Leave a comment
Man-o-man. Here is a great article — very thorough — by Jane Hamsher laying out the sequence of events that led the Democratic party’s biggest campaign donors to sit out this year’s election. They really screwed things up.
Bottom line:
What if someone had had the foresight to anticipate the impact of the highly unpopular Citizens United decision, and used their party’s majorities in Congress to pass legislation that would have made it difficult for big corporations to hide political money in the Chamber of Commerce or Karl Rove’s $50 million independent expenditure operation without disclosure? What if there was a party that had gone to the mat trying to control corporate influence over politics rather than trying to exploit it, and given themselves at the very least a solid campaign issue for 2010?
The bigger problem for the Democrats, however, is not that Lewis and Soros are sitting it out — it’s that Lewis and Soros are considered “lead donors.” Where they go, other donors follow. If they decide to sit it out, so will others.
The complaints that Soros and Lewis have are the same ones expressed by all those hippies that Robert Gibbs, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have been punching. It’s a malaise felt by the entire progressive base, who can’t be spurred into action by being told to “buck up.”
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The Incredible Arrogance of the Rich George Soros Needs to “Buck Up”
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