Obama steps up attacks on U.S. Chamber

[a_priori]

"The White House intensified its attacks Sunday on the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its alleged ties to foreign donors, part of an escalating Democratic effort to link Republicans with corporate and overseas interests ahead of the November midterm elections. The chamber adamantly denies that foreign funds are used in its U.S. election efforts, accusing Democrats of orchestrating a speculative smear campaign during a desperate political year. President Obama, speaking at a rally in Philadelphia, said “the American people deserve to know who is trying to sway their elections,” and raised the possibility that foreigners could be funding his opponents. “You don’t know,” Obama said at the rally for Senate candidate Joe Sestak and other Democrats. “It could be the oil industry. It could even be foreign-owned corporations. You don’t know because they don’t have to disclose.”

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[Julian0404]

since we are speculating it could be, , , , all the banks that received BILLONS, but without a mandate to spend them, they “could be” funneling that unspent BILLIONS back into the Democrats war chest… . . .or. . . it could be the teachers union that received 62 Million, again without a mandate to spend it, and they “could be” funneling that money back into the Democrats war chest… . . . and all of this “could be” a strategy given that the financiers have shut their wallets against the democrats.
Things that make you go HHHMMMmmmmm.

 

[A_Fortiori_33]

since we are speculating it could be, , , , all the banks that received BILLONS, but without a mandate to spend them, they “could be” funneling that unspent BILLIONS back into the Democrats war chest… . . .or. . . it could be the teachers union that received 62 Million, again without a mandate to spend it, and they “could be” funneling that money back into the Democrats war chest… . . . and all of this “could be” a strategy given that the financiers have shut their wallets against the democrats.
Things that make you go HHHMMMmmmmm.

Who was it who bailed out the banks without restrictions? Just to correct your spin, money from TIF was given to school districts, not teacher’s unions.
This is not a partisan problem. This is a huge American democracy problem… Are we going to outsource our votes, also?
We owe it to ourselves to demand congress investigate if foreign governments are funneling money into campaigns. We need a disclosure law which the Dems proposed and the Repups rejected.
How would a disclosure law hurt anybody? Let’s get some sunlight into the election process.