Thursday, September 23, 2010

AP, CBS upset that 59-39 majority vote isn't enough to stifle free speech bill

Headline:
Democrats outnumber Republicans in the House and Senate but apparently that's not good enough. Today a vote in the Senate to revive the McCain campaign finance bill lost by one vote, 59-39. The law is now known as the 'Disclose' Act, and many feel it infringes on free speech. Fine.
The headline informs America the measly party in Siberia (Republicans) caused all the trouble:
The sub-headline reinforces :
Not true, as stated within the article, 2 Republicans abstained from voting, so they were not united.
  • AP's opening paragraph hits it a third time:
"Senate Republicans on Thursday stood fast in blocking legislation requiring special interest groups running campaign ads to identify their donors. "...
  • 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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10/30/08, Obama defends anonymity of funds provided to his own campaign, ABC News, Charlie Gibson interviews Barack Obama, 10/30/08, Obama says donor records "pretty hard to process."
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Fellow traveler NY Times' Tom Friedman has fretted, if only we could be like Communist China for little while to "authorize the right solutions"....

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,
it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but
  • critically important policies needed to

via Free Republic
  • It helps to know these things. ed.
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