The Lies Keep Coming

Silly me. I always think that after a certain amount of time reporters would actually get facts straight. Yeah, put another 'kick me' sign on my back and be done with it.

Sigh.

I keep thinking that when something is easily looked up, a reporter might, I dunno, easily look it up. Kick me.

Goodbye to federal funding for 2012 candidates

Republicans in a wide field must battle each other for the party's private donors. But the emergence of free-spending independent political groups — since the Supreme Court in 2009 cleared the way for unlimited corporate spending in campaigns — is expected to help close the imbalance between Obama and the GOP. Several of the Republicans also have immense personal wealth...

By refusing matching funds, candidates are potentially forfeiting a lot of money. Edwards received nearly $13 million in matching funds in the 2008 primary, and Joe Biden, now the vice president, accepted over $2 million for his primary run. McCain, the winner of the GOP nomination that year, accepted $84 million in federal funds for the general election, but that barred him from any private fundraising. Obama opted out of the system and raised $264 million.

Phew! Good thing they managed to not pass along the fact that Obama promised to take public funding, before breaking that promise.

Anyway, back on point. For goodness sake, can we please get Citizens United correct already? The Supreme Court ruled that you couldn't limit the speech of corporations just before an election. That's it. They could already spend all they wanted...just not in the brief period before elections. There. Were. No. Spending. Limits. Just timeframe limits. It's not that hard, people.