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Title: Axelrod: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce "A Threat To Our Democracy" [ Not The Onion ]
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realclearpolitics.com
URL Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi ... _threat_to_our_democracy_.html
Published: Oct 10, 2010
Author: David Axelrod
Post Date: 2010-10-10 18:32:48 by WhiteSands
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Keywords: democrats, liberals, chamber of commerce
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David Axelrod, the White House's Senior Adviser, is ratcheting up the Democrats' attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, calling special interest spending "a threat to our democracy." Axelrod is accusing the Chamber of Commerce of collecting millions of dollars from secret donors - including some foreign sources - to influence the midterm elections in favor of the Republicans, and refusing to disclose their sources. "This issue of this special interest spending is very important," Axelrod said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. "It's never happened before that organizations are spending this kind of money. And the American people need to ask, 'Why is the oil industry, Wall Street and others spending this kind of money to defeat candidates and elect others in this sort of secretive way?' You know, that is a threat to our democracy."
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#2. To: WhiteSands (#0)
There was a time when hardliner idealogues like GO did not get elected POTUS. I commented 2 years ago how this crew of GO65 bots would piss things up so quickly in the quest to drive this great country down toward their goal of egalitarian average-ness and so nothing alexprick spews re: the evils of commerce surprises me. But.....si si puede....we will hopefully begin to right the ship come Nov. and NOT with the typical "moderate" Republo-BOT
When Democrats loved the U.S. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. "
#4. To: WhiteSands (#3)
I guess the GOP spend and borrow policy is the best they can do for their country.
the Last chance the Constitution had: "A corporatist assumes as the god-given order of things that the purpose of America is to be mined by powerful corporate interests. He then views the Constitution purely instrumentally toward this goal. As we’ll see, this judge views the artificial, ideologically fabricated and imposed “market” as sacrosanct and beyond the Constitution’s purview. He views the written Constitution, and by extension the sovereign people’s inherent constitution, as subordinate to the corporate imperative." http://attempter.wordpress.com/
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestWow, this guy sounds just like War, Brian S and GO65....
#3. To: e_type_jag (#2)
There was a time when hardliner idealogues like GO did not get elected POTUS.
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