Reform (the other guys)

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Gene

Man, those Republicans just can’t stop being sneaky, underhanded, slimy bastards. The latest example shows how they are masters of spin: passing on a party-line vote, the Republicans have created a campaign finance law that for the most part only hurts Democrats by putting caps on spending by non-profit groups and lifting spending limits by parties. In other words, they’re doing to campaign reform the same thing they’ve done to taxes and everything else in this country: give the rich a hand up, keep the poor down.
House Majority Leader John Boehner (Not pronounced how you’d expect-Ohio) actually called this a reform package. Of course he’s technically correct, because it does create a new form of campaign spending, once in which non-profit groups with something to say are restricted; and political parties with their huge money-generating machine — well, the Republican party, at least — are free to spend lavishly.
And who has all the money?
That’s right. Now you’re getting it.