Posted on 05/09/2008 8:24:41 PM PDT by neverdem
Democrats are trying to chase from the political playing field a new conservative group expected to spend tens of millions of dollars this year attacking liberal candidates.
Using accusations of links to gambling and "forced abortions," the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is striving to make the group, Freedom's Watch, too toxic for Republicans to stomach.
"House Republicans and Republican candidates need to decide whether they can afford to partner with Freedom's Watch, a group that embodies the Republicans' culture of corruption by consistently breaking the law and is bankrolled by money that is inconsistent with their values," said Jennifer Crider, communications director for the DCCC.
Billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson is the principal financial backer for the group, which has taken a major role in attacking Democratic candidates in recent special congressional elections.
Faced with the group's deep pockets, the DCCC has fired off mail and broadcast ads highlighting Mr. Adelson's gambling interests and ties with China, which they argue is "a country notorious for forced abortions." Democrats this week filed a third legal challenge to the group with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
"It's been reported that Freedom's Watch intends to spend up to $200 million this cycle against congressional Democrats, and that's money coming from sources that believe very different things than the people in Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere across the country," Miss Crider said.
Freedom's Watch officials said they would not discuss the organization's financial wherewithal, but disputed the reports of a budget upward of $200 million. Ed Patru, vice president for communications at Freedom's Watch, said the effort to sully candidates by association is silly.
"'Vote against candidate X because he has common values with philanthropist Y, who has business interests in China where, by the way, abortion is legal.' What a dynamite argument," Mr...
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Must be the "Republican culture of corruption" worming its way into the bowels of Democrat politics and seizing control of the levers of power.
Hmmm. This should be watched closely for any future developments.
Freedom Watch, eh? Okay. I’ll look ‘em up and maybe even give. Web site handy, anyone? Look, if it pisses off the libs, it HAS to be good.
The anti-Soros?
I hope so.
Ah, but tens of millions of dollars to the ‘rat party from multi billionaire George Soros, much of it gained from quasi-legal currency trading and manipulaion - lets not talk about that......
Can't think of anymore of their hypocrisy right now, just laughing too hard!! HILARIOUS!
George Soros is just a piker in comparison.
Something about these attempts to tie conservatives to “forced abortions” sounds chillingly familiar. Other cynical lib millionaires have been trying to do that to our conservative candidates in Colorado.
Good news! Thanks for the info!
BTW, nothing is more "toxic" than Leftist Hate-America bile.
Good job.
Obama's Bill To Hand US Sovereignty to United Nations
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Via Four Winds: Obama's bill S2433 would require the U.S. to initially direct .7 percent of our GNP into the United Nations coffers for distribution as they see fit, for "food" to third world nations. Under earlier agreements this would evolve into a national tax on the U.S. with the UN attempting to levy this on all first world nations.
The U.N. would have the power to increase this rate of taxation.
The U.S. would be required to surrender some of its sovereignty over foreign aid by putting it under UN control. The bill would force the U.S. to sign onto the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration, which would commit us not only to "banning small arms and light weapons" but also to adhere to the International Criminal Court Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.So Obama finally tried to do something. What's the use of running for president when you are just going to hand your power over to the Secretary General?
WND called Obama's office and the others who support this bill....No comments.
Shel Adelson is the GOP casino owner in Vegas.
Steve Wynn is the Democratic casino owner in Vegas.
Adelson is a pretty hard-core conservative in what is generally a pretty liberal town, what with the Greenspun and Reid axis holding a lot of the cards there.
I believe that would require an Amendment to the Constitution. Good luck with that, Barry. It’d be your first defeat.
To Amend the Constitution, two ways are possible...
1. Congress proposes amendments.
Both houses of Congress would have to approve by two-thirds , a resolution calling for the amendment. The resolution does not require the President’s signature. To become effective, the proposed amendment must then be “ratified” (approved) by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. Congress usually sets a time limit of seven years for ratification by the states.
2. The states propose amendments.
The legislatures of two-thirds of the states vote to call for a convention of the States, at which constitutional amendments can be proposed. Amendments proposed by the convention would, again, require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states.
Thank you. :)
Thanks for the links.
Quorom call. LOL.
What it boiled down to was that Musgrave had accepted $$ in the past from GOPAC, as did the vast majority of House Republicans in tight races. In turn, GOPAC was once run by Tom DeLay. In turn, DeLay had once accepted $$ from an American textile mfgr who owned a factory in Saipan. In turn, union organizers who have been putting pressure on Congress to allow unionization of Saipan businesses were raking all the muck they could possibly find on Saipan, in order to make their opponents look as bad as possible, and they managed to dig up (according to them) an anonymous Chinese woman who allegedly claimed that when she got pregnant, she was told by her bosses to lose the baby or lose her job. Supposedly, she defied them and kept the baby. No word on whether she did lose her job. (I'm assuming she didn't, else there'd be no need for her to remain anonymous, right?)
So if you can manage to follow that tortuous, convoluted trail of guilt by association, combined with unsupported accusations from union organizers with axes to grind, you end up with, voila, our Congresswoman, who has a 100% rating from pro-life groups, is actually pro-abortion.
That's making the assumption that our courts would strike such a law down. Not a given, IMO.
It is unconstitutional for unelected bureaucrats (IRS as an example) to write "regulations" that have the power to take your freedom or property. Yet that is happening now.
I thought the Dems were just decrying guilt by association with Barak and Jeremiah Wright, someone he had known for 20 years.
Now this casino guy who elected Republicans don’t hang around with should be used against them. But the Pubs won’t fight this because they don’t want to make the Dems and their media buddies mad.
Hallelujah. I'm glad at least one of these big dogs is a conservative. Screw the 'rats in their perverted hypocrisy--more power to him.
It's about time. RATS have Buffet, Gates and Soros and they're whining?
This is gonna get nasty and we’d better be prepared for the fight.
House Republicans and Republican candidates need to decide whether they can afford to partner with Freedom's Watch, a group that embodies the Republicans' culture of corruption......and, we're done reading that paragraph. Thanks neverdem.
McCain and the GOP will be outspent 10-1 in this election
Billary has been outspent by Obama in most of the last races since PA, but only won NC. The dems don't have a message except they're not pubbies. If they said what really believed, they would have no hope.
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