- 9/23, AP, "GOP blocks bill to disclose campaign ad donors," via CBSnews.com
- 2 Republicans abstained from voting.
The sub-headline reinforces :
- "Republicans United in Opposition to DISCLOSE Act Making Interest Groups Identify Who is Funding Campaign Ads"
- AP's opening paragraph hits it a third time:
- AP, CBS News, making America safe for plutocrats. Soros doesn't want a level playing field. He liked the McCain bill.
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- 5/23/10, Meet the Press, David Gregory: "Where is the center that actually does something, that actually achieves things in Washington...?
MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, David, it's been decimated. ...So I don't--I, I--I'm worried about this, it's why I have fantasized--don't get me wrong--but that
- what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know,
- authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment.
I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.
MS. MITCHELL: And, in fact, Tom, you're absolutely right."...More Tom Friedman, 9/8/09 from the NY Times, Autocratic China is better than the US:
"There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.
- One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a
- reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today,
- critically important policies needed to
- move a society forward in the 21st century."...
via Free Republic
- It helps to know these things. ed.
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