“They told me if I voted for John McCain, special interests would run the country. And they were right.”
President Obama condemned the January 2010 Citizens United decision, saying “the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics.” Nothing but a smokescreen to distract attention from the tsunami of special interest money on which his side surfs. Psychologists call such hypocriscy “projection” but we prefer the old-fashioned term “lying.”
Powerline reveals the inconvenient truth:
Antony Davies of Duquesne has prepared a series of charts that summarize special interest political contributions from 1989 to 2009, based on data from Open Secrets. This chart is the most revealing; it shows that the overwhelming majority of special interest money goes to Democrats, and that unions dwarf everyone else. It’s actually even worse than the chart shows at first glance, since teachers’ unions are listed separately and account for another $50 million, virtually all of it given to Democrats.
Sure, condemn opponents for doing something you do ten times as much. Sounds pretty “Democratic” to us.
By the way, what exactly is “special interest money”? Apparently it’s any money that doesn’t go to the Democrats.
…it is time to revisit the privileged status that unions are given under the antitrust laws. If we repeal Section 6 of the Clayton Act, unions will be on a level playing field with the rest of us.
The chattering class has always told us special interests are screwing us. For once, they were right about something.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Powerline
