"Is That The Best You Can Do?"

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'Is That the Best You Can Do?'

Bowing to the Saudi king, yet complaining about foreign money

Democrats are in such dire straits headed into November's elections that they're resorting to outlandish fear mongering about foreign money influencing the campaign via the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, which represents 300,000 American businesses. Considering the
Democrats' record of cap 'n' tax legislation, financial sector
regulations and the takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, it's no
wonder they're focusing on a non-issue such as the Chamber.

After a leftist blog reported that the Chamber had received $300,000 in annual dues from foreign companies, the Democrat National Committee ran an ad that warned, "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
They're shills for big business. And they're stealing our democracy,
spending millions from secret donors to elect Republicans to do their
bidding in Congress. It appears they even have taken secret foreign
money to influence our elections. It's incredible: Republicans
benefiting from secret foreign money. Tell the Bush crowd and the
Chamber of Commerce: Stop stealing our democracy!" And here we thought
we lived in a republic.

CBS anchor Bob Schieffer played the ad for White House adviser David Axelrod and then asked, "If the only charge three weeks [before] the election that the Democrats have to make is that somehow
this may or may not be foreign money coming into the campaign, is that
the best you can do?" Yes, Bob, it is. Furthermore, Democrats have a
long history of blaming opponents for engaging in all the dastardly
practices they themselves have done for decades, a tactic right out of
Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" ("pick a target, freeze it,
personalize it, and polarize it"). Foreign money has been flowing to
Democrat coffers, especially labor unions, for many election cycles. Yet
the White House indicates that it will continue this theme for the next
few weeks.

For the Chamber of Commerce to use foreign funds to pay for campaign ads would be a crime. Obama knows this, though it doesn't stop him from calling the Chamber's latest free-market advocacy
campaign a "threat to democracy." Joe Biden challenged the Chamber to
"tell us how much of the money they're investing is from foreign
sources." "None," would be the answer. Even the "fake but accurate" New York Times
reports, "[A] closer examination shows that there is little evidence
that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or
even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law
lawyers and campaign finance documents."

Ever since the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC ruling overturned parts of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, Democrats have been looking for ways to repeal the First Amendment for
businesses, and publicly demonizing the Chamber of Commerce and other
faceless corporations is the first step. Whether it's this pathetic
episode, or Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) ordering
investigations into tax-exempt groups for political activities, or
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius threatening "zero tolerance"
for health insurance companies blaming ObamaCare for increasing premium
rates, Democrats have a plan. And there's little "democratic" about it.

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