The Best Elections Money Can Buy?

Glen Beck has become a financial liability to Fox News.  Outcries from customers to his advertisers have prompted most of them to withdraw their advertising support.  I’m proud to be one of the people who have called his advertisers to tell them that I will not consider doing business with them, as long as they support Beck with their advertising dollars.  Hopefully Murdoch will tire of losing money on him and take him off the air.  We could not have stripped his advertisers from him, if we did not know who they are. But as November 2 approaches, the flood of anonymous corporate money continues to fund attack ads against Democrats.  Outside spending for Republicans outstrips that for Democrats $28.5 million to $5.6 million, so far.  Democrats are finally fighting back.

Today Vice President Biden joined President Obama in blasting outside interest groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, for their “shady sources” of fundraising which has resulted in the massive amounts of money they are spending for the midterm elections.

At a fundraiser for Rep. Chris Carney in his boyhood hometown of Scranton, PA, Biden railed against special interest groups for raising tens of millions of dollars from “shady sources – shady in the sense that we don’t know where the money is coming from.”

“For the first time in modern American history, they don’t have to tell us,” he said, according to the pool report, referring to the Supreme Court decision that allows outside interest groups to solicit unlimited corporate money without having to publicly declare its donors.

Biden pinned the blame on the US Chamber of Commerce and “Karl Rove and his friends,” and said that the Republican strategist has a “stable of billionaires, literally, and millionaires,” pouring money into congressional campaigns.

The vice president challenged Rove and the Chamber to “tell us how much of the money they’re investing is from foreign sources.”

"I challenge them, if I’m wrong I will stand corrected,” he said. “But show me, show me. Folks

they’re trying to buy this election to go back to exactly what they did before.”

Biden said that big corporations, from the insurance and oil industries, are “feeling threatened by what we’re doing.”

“Does it surprise you where this money is coming from?” he asked… [emphasis added]

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Keith Olbermann interviews Sen. Claire McCaskill, co-sponsor of the DISCLOSE act.

I keep hearing the argument that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.  Well here is one key difference.  With the exception of a few blue dogs with GOP fleas, Democrats want you to know who is funding their campaigns.  Republicans want to hide who is financing theirs, because they are afraid of how Americans will vote, if they find out.  That in itself is a powerful reason to vote for the Democrats.