Boehner needs to throw this back at the Rats and tell them, “Sure, but only if we make it retroactive to 2008”. Then watch the Rats squirm.
we should get a calling campaign to Boehner and McConnell’s office demanding as much....
Demand of the Dems what they demand of the Reps. Show me yours first if you’re so concerned about ‘transparency’ and ‘openness’ and then I’ll show you mine. Lead by example.
How about, create a panel to investigate “anonymous donations” to “ALL” candidates in the 2008 Presidential election. Report the findings around October 25, 2012.
Hypocrisy? CNBC Shows More ‘Foreign-Connected’ Money Goes to Dems by a ‘Healthy Margin’
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Obama Turns Blind Eye to Credit Card Donation Fraud
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/21/142761.html
What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson and Raela Odinga have in common?
All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.
The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.
**“OBAMA’S FOREIGN DONORS: THE MEDIA AVERTS ITS EYES”**
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html
(He accepts credit cards including Macy’ s!)
**Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records**
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10donate.html?ref=politics
During 2008, the Obama campaign didn’t show any interest in going beyond the letter of the law in disclosing its donors to the general public. Despite public pleas from campaign-finance reform groups such as Common Cause and Democracy 21, Team Obama refused to follow Senator John McCain’s lead and release names of donors who gave less than $200, even though such donors supplied about half of the $800 million the Obama campaign raised.
Here’s Evidence of Foreign Campaign Donations
http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/10/12/attn-msm-heres-evidence-of-foreign-campaign-donations/