Skeletal remains of the system of federal laws that regulate political contributions could be further weakened in another landmark case three years after the historic Citizens United decision opened the gateway for record election spending and unprecedented secrecy for wealthy donors. The Supreme Court agreed last month to hear a case that challenges federal limits on [...]
Nearly four months after the most expensive election in American history reached its conclusion the record-setting race for political cash goes on for President Obama. Transforming his reelection campaign apparatus into an unprecedented political advocacy extension of the White House, the president is seeking to stock the coffers of his new group with special access [...]
The official beginning of Barack Obama’s second term in the White House was in a small and entirely private swearing-in ceremony at noon on Sunday shared with the public only through photographs. Only Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, the president’s family and a few other were present. Far more grand and befitting the public spectacle [...]
OBAMA’S DIGESTION: DOES HE “HAVE THE STOMACH TO CARRY ON ANOTHER WAR?” Apparently so, says Jason Hirthler, as he notes the bi-partisan “imperial lockstep” between the two major parties as, for example, Defense Secretary Panetta places cruise missiles in Turkey for its conflict with Syria, and State Secretary Clinton jiggles the nerves by talking of [...]
The first true test of the post-Citizens United campaign financing landscape resulted in a cash “arms race”that drove election spending to unthinkable records, but with surprisingly little to show for the big checks cut by a cache of wealthy donors. The 2012 campaign will end up costing a total of over $6 billion, with $2 [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS REELECTION. ` Surpassing the 270 electoral votes necessary shortly after 11 PM on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term in the White House. After a historically long, bitter and expensive campaign, the status quo was retained in Washington as the House and Senate [...]
The 2012 election had long been predicted to set new records for money raised and spent during a single political campaign, but updated figures show that the actual money race has blown past expectations and is likely to be the most expensive in American history by nearly $1 billion. The dismantling of national campaign finance [...]
U.S. DRONE STRIKES IN PAKISTAN: WE’RE NOT DOING THEM; BUT DAMN THEY ARE DOING GOOD! The U.S. government resists demands to release records on drone strikes, saying there is “no proof” that such a program exists but not hesitating to “leak” operations that are said to kill terrorist leaders. And of course in defining [...]
The frenetic pace in which big money is pouring into this year’s presidential and congressional campaigns is steadily increasing with less than two months until Election Day after already setting new records. Both sides are relying on a limited number of wealthy donors like never before to bankroll a torrent of advertising backing Barack Obama [...]
Eight weeks to go until the November election and the race to raise and spend as much money as corporations and wealthy contributors can part with is already setting new political spending records, charting a pace that goes beyond even the most wild predictions offered at the start of the campaign. From the moment Barack [...]
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