Karl Rove. Ed Gillespie. They’re Bush cronies. 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 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.
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Cue republican cries of victimhood in three, two, one…
“Have these people no shame?” Rove said of the attacks leveled at him and the Chamber. “Does the president of the United States have such little regard for the office he holds that he goes out there and makes these kind of baseless charges against his political enemies? This is just beyond the pale. How dare the president do this?”
“This is a desperate and I think disturbing trend by the president of the United States to tar his political adversaries with some kind of enemies list, with being unrestrained by any facts or evidence whatsoever.”
Fascist putz – the lady doth protest too much, methinks.
NYTimes story yesterday that some think “debunked” the foreign money aspect of the anonymous donations to the chamber. ThinkProgress fired back making the point that neither the NYT nor an article in the WaPO really responded to the full scope of the the substantive claims that their earlier report made.
Sadly, while you expect to see Republicans making hay with the NYT and WaPo articles, it’s disturbing to see sources like TPM take the articles at face value.