Liars Fundraise Together: GOP Fundraises With Breitbart

You’d think with the sickening actions of Breitbart that the GOP would have more sense than this.  For those that forgot (but, who can really forget) Breitbart edited a speech of Shirley Sherrod’s to make it seem like she was racist towards white farmers.  This resulted in wrongful firing, to which later the White House apologized for.

Nonetheless, the wrong-doer is Breitbart, that apparently thought he could get away with lying to the American people by editing a tape.  Unfortunately, the GOP does not care about journalistic integrity or integrity in general.  They are willing to fundraise with any slim-ball as long as they get their money.  This is from the AP,

The Republican National Committee has invited conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart to participate in a private GOP fundraiser next month with party chairman Michael Steele.

Breitbart was behind an edited video clip of a former Department of Agriculture official that suggested Shirley Sherrod, who is black, denied a white farmer aid. The speech, when viewed in full, shows the opposite.

Tickets to the donor retreat in Beverly Hills, Calif., start at $1,000 and go up to $60,800 for a couple. Steele and Breitbart are listed as confirmed guests to the Aug. 12 event to update donors on the RNC’s plans for the midterm elections.

Talking Points Memo first reported the invitation on Monday and it was later confirmed by Republicans.

The RNC declined to discuss the event.

The saying holds true that “Birds of a feather, flock together”.  Or, in this case, “Birds of a feather, fundraise together, lie together, hang out privately behind closed doors in Beverly Hills together”.

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Pres. Obama Slams GOP For Supporting Foreign Influence In Elections

Pres. Obama made a statement today about the Disclose Act which would require corporate interest who help fund political ads and campaigns, be disclosed to the public.  It would also prevent foreign companies from influencing American elections.  You’d think everyone would be on board with this but apparently not republicans.

The Senate will vote on it tomorrow on the Disclose Act.  Conservative groups like The Heritage Foundation think stop foreign interest in elections is a threat to their “First Amendment Rights“.  Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell released a statement saying,

“The mere suggestion that a bill designed to save politicians’ jobs should take precedent over helping millions of Americans find work is an embarrassing indictment of Democrats’ priorities. The DISCLOSE Act seeks to protect unpopular Democrat politicians by silencing their critics and exempting their campaign supporters from an all out attack on the First Amendment. In the process, the authors of the bill have decided to trade our Constitutional rights away in a backroom deal that makes the Cornhusker Kickback look like a model of legislative transparency.”

Let’s break his statement down, shall we?

“The mere suggestion that a bill designed to save politicians’ jobs should take precedent over helping millions of Americans find work is an embarrassing indictment of Democrats’ priorities.”

The real suggestion is that it’s designed to make sure foreign influence and corporations don’t take precedent over millions of Americans.

“The DISCLOSE Act seeks to protect unpopular Democrat politicians by silencing their critics and exempting their campaign supporters from an all out attack on the First Amendment.”

Yea, so we know what he’s thinking about.  He’s not thinking about honesty and accountability in campaigns.  He’s thinking about winning the upcoming elections.  And, how is it an attack on their First Amendment right, to stop foreign entities (non-Americans not held to the same standards of the US constitution)….

“In the process, the authors of the bill have decided to trade our Constitutional rights away in a backroom deal that makes the Cornhusker Kickback look like a model of legislative transparency.”

Looks to me like republican politicians (employees for the American people) that would prefer to not let the Americans see who finances their campaigns and keep foreign interests a secret, are the ones making the backroom deals.

With all this written, I would also add to each of these points…why do the republicans believe they can’t win an election without foreign money?  They aren’t sent to Washington to work for other countries, they work for the American people.  Try winning an election with actual American people contributing.  They can’t do it!

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Newt Gingrich For President, More Like Attention Whoring

Every upcoming election cycle Newt Gingrich jumps in the spotlight with questions of whether he’ll run for political office.  And every time he benefits from it in some way even though he doesn’t really run.  He was, again on Fox News Sunday keeping the rumor alive,

Though, I personally wish he’d run as it would continue to split the republican party which we already see now.  Also a run by Gingrich would certainly help hand over another term to Pres. Obama in the same way a Palin run would do the same.

However, this constant attention whoring by Newt Gingrich is getting old.  And, whether or not he wants to believe it, he’s losing support in the republican party to people like Palin.  Sure, Newt is more “intellectual”, in comparison to Palin, but he’s not as relevant to conservatives as she is.  I’m assuming he plans on coming out with a new book soon, maybe he’s even looking to have his own Fox News show.

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Sharron Angle Only Talks To Beg For Money, Poll Numbers Sinking

Sharron Angle (R), Senate candidate in Nevada trying to unseat Harry Reid (D), did an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network.  When the questions turned to why she won’t do interviews on mainstream news networks (besides Fox news) she basically said it’s because they wont let her ask viewers to donate to her campaign.

Nope, Sharron Angle doesn’t care about letting the public know about her political positions, she cares about benefiting financial.  She is basically worse than a typical politician.  At least a typical politician will care about people knowing the facts about their positions, Sharron Angle just wants you to know how you can donate to her campaign.  This is pathetic. But I guess this explains why Sharron Angle is a supporting Tea Party candidate.

I’m pretty sure the public, most importantly the voters in Nevada see right through her.  A recent poll has shown Sharron Angle losing ground.  From LVRJ,

The Mason-Dixon poll showed that if the general election were held now, Reid would win 44 percent to 37 percent for Angle. Ten percent were undecided, 5 percent would choose “none of these candidates,” and the remaining 4 percent would pick another candidate on the ballot.

That is the best Reid has done against Angle this year in a series of Mason-Dixon polls. Previously, the two had been locked in a statistical dead heat with Angle finishing just ahead of Reid in February, 44 percent to 42 percent, and in June, 44 percent to 41 percent, and Reid finishing just ahead of Angle in May, 42 percent to 39 percent.

I know poll numbers don’t matter right now as they could all change.  I would only hope the people of Nevada are smart enough to vote Harry Reid or another candidate. Obviously a candidate more concerned about doing interviews that will only let her ask for cash is troubling.  And seeing as how she has already raised a lot of money, it seems odd that she doesn’t want to stick with the issues.

To me it seems pretty obvious that she can’t handle criticism.  As a politician she needs to be able to fight for her constituents in any venue.  If she can’t go on other venues to fight for the positions she believes in then it only leads one to believe she’ll be more involved with corporate lobbyist if she goes to Washington.  Seems pretty clear Sharron Angle is not the right candidate.

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Sensico’s Interview On Spotlight And I’ll Be Blogging More

Recently, I did an interview with the fabulous and talented Lotusb.  For those that only know me in the political realm of the blog-o-sphere this might give some insight into the personal me.  Questions such as, why I chose to blog, what I do when I’m not blogging, etc,.  Who knows, all you conservative ditto heads might actually find me likable and relatable

You can check out the interview here on Blambloozers.

Also, with the events this summer discussed in the interview and me being distracted having finally gotten a PS3, I have not been blogging much.  But, don’t think I haven’t been paying attention to the latest political stories.  I will be back to blogging as soon as….today

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Whoops Open Mic, Reporters Caught Bashing Palin’s Speech

Sarah Palin continued her spread of idiocy by going to CSU Stanislaus to make a speech about various topics similar to the Tea Party Movement.  After her speech reporters were caught on an open mic critiquing Palin’s speech.

Even though, they were saying it in an arrogant-bashing sort of way, they were critiquing her speech.  But this just gives conservatives another reason to blame the liberal media for Palin’s lack of knowledge on the issues and failures.  However, this is just good entertainment.

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