The Democratic Party, which is only allowed to raise hard money (donations limited to $2,000 per person) by the McCain-Feingold law is unable to amass the resources necessary for a national campaign, so it is ceding the main role to Americans Coming Together.
As the campaign-finance-reform bill went through Congress, Democrats demanded a ban on soft money donations to political parties. They succeeded in including it as the reform’s centerpiece.
But it turns out that Republicans are raising twice as much as Democrats are in hard money: $158 million for the GOP vs. $66.5 million for the Democrats. So the Democrats have resorted to a loophole in McCain-Feingold and worked to maximize soft money contributions to phony political committees, allegedly independent of the party apparatus and thus not covered by the soft money ban.
I would like to say I am surprised by this move on the part of the Democratic Party – but I’m not. This isn’t the first time they’ve tried to slither their way through loopholes of bills they insisted on being put into action. It’s a shame they haven’t learned from past mistakes and don’t realize that this too shall come home and bite their greedy little hands.
Could this move on their part be more blatant?
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Democrats are the entrance to Satans asshole. et use to the fact that they’ll slither their way into any kind of good for themselves.
Who said ACT was not coordinating with the DNC and the Kerry Campaign???