Rules? We don’t need no stinking rules, beside “Democrats” passed them- they must be good! Like this one: if you can’t pay my way for front seat tickets at the Bob Seger concert, I really don’t care what you think. Here, have a “money” quote, it’s the closest you’ll ever come to the real thing:
“I am not going to hide from the fact that we have to raise money,†said Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican who has invited donors to his political action committee on a wine-tasting tour in June, modeled after the movie “Sideways.†“Only a moron would sell a vote for a $2,000 contribution,†Mr. Nunes said
To me, it seems like there are three choices. 1: Hang them, by their feet, on every lamp post in the 2000X zip code area over a burning fire until you run out of posts or fire 2: Get serious about raising money online until ActBlue and BlogPAC can compete with the “hunting and fishing” lobbyists 3: get serious about the Constitutional amendment it’s going to take to clean up campaign financing. Or just keep on feeling like an “effective sucker.” Wow, maybe I should turn off the computer. I just noticed I had this rope, a nice stack of dried wood, and a lonely lamp post right outside my window.
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I'll take door #1
… although I like all of your choices. And Nunes is one of the worst. But thanks to gerrymadering— not by Tom DeLay, but by Democrats— he never has to contemplate a serious challenge— unless he doesn’t vote far enough to the right and he gets a primary. Of course in Nunes’ case… well, there is nothing to the right of his record.
If not 2K
Then how much? What price lifts one above the “moron” threshold?
At least it’s an acknowledgment that votes are bought and sold. They’ll continue to be if we don’t make public financing a more viable option.