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The congressional majority’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, the cutely-titled DISCLOSE Act, was bad enough. But it turned almost grotesque when Democrats and the NRA made a devil’s pact with each other: The gun-rights group would get a special examption from the censorship legislation, and in return would drop its opposition to the bill.
Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello is in a tight spot, electorally speaking. But that doesn’t excuse his support for both the bill and the obnoxious NRA exemption: “This bill is not about favoring groups with a particular belief but about handing our democracy back to the people,” he says.
Wrong. As currently constituted, it’s about writing different sets of rules for different groups in a cynical and unprincipled effort to silence political speech by everyone else.
Cue the gnashing of teeth and the gutteral growls.
The “Diclose Act” is a joke. It piles restrictions on corporations while allowing unions to spend freely on campaigns the money looted from their pension funds. It’s as if being a blatantly partisan kickback bill is going to help it pass. It won’t and, if it does, the Supreme Court will rip it apart in short order. But then the democrats who wrote it know this. Shumer has gone so far as to say the main priority of the bill is to help dems in the mid terms. These people aren’t even trying to hide their corruption anymore.
As for the NRA, this distresses me greatly. That they would carve out a deal for themselves…in effect collaborating with these criminals…it makes me sick to my stomach. They’ve already gotten a message from me and if they don’t reject this garbage they’re going to get a cut up membership card in the mail too. They’ve greatly underestimated the depth of hatred there is within the organization for this kind of corruption.
Jun. 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Deal of the Day
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