Or how about “Americans for Stable Quality Care”? That was the government health care takeover-promoting special interest coalition funded by Big Pharma, the AARP, AMA and the Service Employees International Union.
The group pitched in $150 million for pro-Obama health care ads to create the illusion of grassroots support.
Or how about “Health Care for America Now”? That’s the 1825 K Street-based “grassroots” lobbying conglomerate funded by radical liberal sugar daddy George Soros and the brass-knuckled, purple-shirted bosses of the SEIU.
Or how about “American Rights at Work”? That’s the far-left, pro-Big Labor lobbying group that Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, served as treasurer for while a congresswoman — a position she failed to disclose while lobbying for the Big Labor card-check bill she was sponsoring at the same time.
Or how about the “American Public Policy Committee”? That’s the umbrella group for Beltway-based union and progressive lobbyists run by D.C. money-shuffler Craig Varoga, who is now harnessing Washington bucks to attack tea party activists.
It’s the president’s biggest donors and advisers who perfected the art of Astroturf. Don’t be so modest, man.
Team Obama and their allies on Capitol Hill have some nerve gnashing their teeth about transparency after two years of backdoor kickbacks, secret Big Labor deals, C-SPAN camera evasion, White House disclosure-ducking coffeehouse meetings, and sunlight-shirking holiday and midnight floor votes. And while they preached about America’s right to know and posed as crusaders for open access, Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate continued to stonewall on public hearings for health care rationing czar Donald Berwick — Obama’s recess-appointed head of Medicare and Medicaid.
A White House spokesman called the battle over the DISCLOSE Act a “defining moment for the public.” Nah. It’s just another example of the Democratic majority’s endless hide-and-seek hypocrisy.
Michelle, as always, is spot-on in her commentary. She takes a rather confusing issue and clarifies it.
Deception is the name of the game! Yes, transparent – we can see right through you!~
"Disclose" falls into the same black hole as "transparency," and joins "let me be clear about that," "open door" and "fairness" in the lexicon of burgeoning tyranny. It started before the election with "hope and change," and "post-racial presidency." Is it not time that we hold these duplicitous rulers accountable for their lies? We must wonder … how do they keep a straight face when they mold their nefarious schemes to make them palatable to American citizens? How can they face their constituents, their families, their own visages in the mirror? How do people who sold their country, and their souls, to the devil sleep at night?
It is so sad, isn't it that the American public really does not get this? When the Supreme Court struck down the McCain Feingold act earlier this year, a friend of mine-a high school social studies teacher-asked me how I felt about the Supreme Court favoring large corporations. I had to explain that the case was not about large corporations (BTW that are owned by little shareholders-like your pension, bozo) but about freedom of speech. Although I have not discussed this recent attempt to tie down the riff raff, I am fairly certain that he won't understand this either.
He may not understand it because he may never get to see such a post as this. Doubtful even Fox will cover this with as much clarity. We KNOW the MSM won't cover this. So how can we expect most folks to find out unless we take them by the hand and show them articles like this one? I wish FPM had a Prime Time TV Show. I'd invest!
He actually told me that he tries not to read the papers, etc. and that when he does he reads the New York Times. I did have a few comments about that. He is a nice man but, probably, uninformed-and he is teaching our children.
The whole idea that 'McCain-Feingold is about big money is a scam.
If the public wants corporations out of political debate this can be established quite easily at the state level. This is about WHICH big-money corporations can leverage their poilitical influence with money.
McCain-Feingold picks favorites among corporations on a 'free-speech' issue. This is clearly un-american.
Do it the right way (the american way) or not at all. No one has a 'right' to the benefits and privileges of a corporate model. A state can require a corporation to give up a voice in political debate as a cost to exercise the privilege of the corporate format. Either that, or let people speak through their own property, the corporation, just the same as they do in person.
We forget: corporations are largely owned and run by people; american citizens.