[VeniVidiVici]

The conservative group’s remarkable demand — black-and-white proof of the longtime Washington practice known as “pay for play” — was contained in a private letter to FedEx that was provided to POLITICO.

The letter exposes the practice by some political interest groups of taking stands not for reasons of pure principle, as their members and supporters might assume, but also in part because a sponsor is paying big money.

Huh? I fail to see the problem here. It involves two private organizations so why are they trying to frame it as some sort of "corruption"? This happens all of the time.

Now, if the ACU tried to shake down a politician, THAT'S a problem. But FedEx? C'mon.

[mrmeangenes]

Well, that’s one viewpoint.

I note some of SCU’s favorite columnists are “frequent flyers” here:

http://www.conservative.org/columnists/default.asp

From what I’ve seen, right and left are getting their “marching orders” from right or left oriented “think tanks”, and I imagine these think tanks are being rather heavily funded.

I often wonder if there is a difference between the stated agendas of these groups-and their actual wish lists.