Following the arguments on the Democratic side of the presidential race this week of oil donations to candidates, the Hillary supporting crowd thinks they found a gotcha from another industry to go after Sanders with. Perhaps they should have looked a little deeper.
Many on the left are celebrating a decision made by the Supreme Court yesterday as a win for campaign finance reform, however I find it anything but.
With Mike Huckabee announcing he was leaving Fox News this weekend, to explore a possible presidential run in 2016, we're once again reminded of the problems with our electoral system.
Besides President Obama and the democrats, there was another big winner in this year’s election – democracy. Despite all the big money that went into the right to try and buy this election, democracy did prevail. And who was the big loser? In a case of absolute irony, it so happens the biggest loser was […]
We always here Republicans talk about “state sovereignty” and an “overreaching federal government”, but they really don’t believe in what they say. Take this latest example from the conservative Supreme Court: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Montana’s century-old limits on corporate political spending, putting an end to the state’s resistance to Citizens […]
The Daily Mall has this piece up: Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book. Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year […]
EMBRACE: to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea. That seems to be the word the GOP is using to describe President Obama’s decision to accept Super PAC funds. Here are some examples: Videos of Obama condemning Super PACs…which he now embraces (PJ Tatler) Obama Embraces Citizens United: “Special Interest” […]
While everyone is talking about the past sexual harassment accusations against Herman Cain, there’s another story today that could prove even bigger trouble for Herman Cain: Herman Cain’s two top campaign aides ran a private Wisconsin-based corporation that helped the GOP presidential candidate get his fledgling campaign off the ground by originally footing the bill […]
Republicans be warned: The man recently hired by Michael Steele as a Republican National Committee fundraiser was accused in 2005 by a political action committee he chaired of improperly using PAC money on personal nightclub bills, according to a copy of the complaint filed against him. The revelation about Neil Alpert, who began working as […]
CBS is seeing the signs that Justice Stevens term in the Supreme Court could be coming to an end: Justice John Paul Stevens has left some clues he’s planning to retire this year, shortly after he turns 90 years old. He’s only hired one law clerk for next term, for example, and not the four […]