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.
