AP, CBS upset that 59-39 majority vote isn't enough to stifle free speech bill

Headline:

• 9/23, AP, "GOP blocks bill to disclose campaign ad donors," via CBSnews.com

Democrats outnumber Republicans in the House and Senate but apparently that's not good enough. Today a vote in the Senate to revive the McCain campaign finance bill lost by one vote, 59-39. The law is now known as the 'Disclose' Act, and many feel it infringes on free speech. Fine.

• 2 Republicans abstained from voting.

The headline informs America the measly party in Siberia (Republicans) caused all the trouble:

• "GOP blocks bill to disclose campaign ad donors," AP

The sub-headline reinforces :

• "Republicans United in Opposition to DISCLOSE Act Making Interest Groups Identify Who is Funding Campaign Ads"

Not true, as stated within the article, 2 Republicans abstained from voting, so they were not united.

• AP's opening paragraph hits it a third time:

"Senate Republicans on Thursday stood fast in blocking legislation requiring special interest groups running campaign ads to identify their donors. "...

• AP, CBS News, making America safe for plutocrats. Soros doesn't want a level playing field. He liked the McCain bill.
  
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10/30/08, Obama defends anonymity of funds provided to his own campaign, ABC News, Charlie Gibson interviews Barack Obama, 10/30/08, Obama says donor records "pretty hard to process."

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Fellow traveler NY Times' Tom Friedman has fretted, if only we could be like Communist China for little while to "authorize the right solutions"....

• 5/23/10, Meet the Press, David Gregory: "Where is the center that actually does something, that actually achieves things in Washington...?

MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, David, it's been decimated. ...So I don't--I, I--I'm worried about this, it's why I have fantasized--don't get me wrong--but that

• what if we could just be China for a day? I mean, just, just, just one day. You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know,
• authorize the right solutions, and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment.
  

I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.

MS. MITCHELL: And, in fact, Tom, you're absolutely right."...
More Tom Friedman, 9/8/09 from the NY Times, Autocratic China is better than the US:

• "Our one-Party Democracy"

"There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today.

• One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a

• reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today,

it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but

• critically important policies needed to

• move a society forward in the 21st century."...

via Free Republic

• It helps to know these things. ed.

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