Dems' new excuse

NY Post ^ | September 25, 2010 | Jacob Sullum

[Scanian]

As Democrats head for what promises to be an election fiasco of historic propor tions, a pre-emptive excuse has begun to circulate: It's all because of Citizens United.

Team Donkey fans claim the Jan. 21 decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned restrictions on the political speech of corporations, triggered a flood of negative advertising by what President Obama calls "shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names."

If independent groups favoring Team Elephant have a spending advantage so far, it's not because of recent changes in the law. Most of the advertising that irks Democrats was legal before Citizens United, and the plausible prospect of taking over one or both houses of Congress has energized Republicans, while Dems are dispirited by the unpopularity of their party's policies.

In his radio address last Saturday, President Obama complained about "special interests using front groups with misleading names" who are saying mean things about Democrats on TV, a development he attributed to Citizens United. Yet similar complaints have been heard from both major parties in every recent election cycle

[BelegStrongbow]

I was pinged to it at FaceBook. So, not sure.

Aha, found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8T_m3ERkH8

Enjoy.

[BelegStrongbow]

There’s an activist who is very doctrinaire leftist who is one of my FB friends. I don’t even try to post on his threads, but only keep him so I can sort of gauge what is happening in the local sort-of intellectual left. If he’s any indication, the whole Dem establishment is in utter denial and has fixed itself into a position where nothing said, seen, known or done will have any effect on their conviction that their cause is right, just and wholesome.

So, I’d say the answer to “perhaps some of their listeners (do they have any left?) were” is ‘only so they can find one more person to viscerally resent and demonize’.

[Red_Devil 232]

Thanks!