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Aren’t puzzles puzzling?
Out of the box their pieces are tiny, oddly shaped and maddeningly indistinguishable (like a pea, a marble and our editor’s brain). But when you look at the cover of the box, the pieces are mysteriously assembled to paint a clear picture.
A clear picture is being painted right now in Washington DC. As these pieces come together, this political picture is not looking good… for the Democrats.
Here are some of the pieces…
Fund Raising: A new Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, frees corporations to write unlimited blank checks to political campaigns (Open the Floodgates!).
Web Surfing: The Republicans are getting more savvy as to how to use The Internet for political gain. The recent election of Massachusetts Senator Senator Scott Brown has been attributed to a rigorous use of the internet. Elsewhere, California conservative Carly Fiorina have taken to running attack adds through the web. Seen below is the “Demon Sheep” add run against her primary challenger Tom Campbell.
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Last year Conservative film maker James O’Keefe was a political star.
He and a friend, Hanna Giles, dressed up as a pimp and prostitute (respectively) in a film that gave ACORN (a national community activist group) a basket of problems. In their guise the duo filmed a few ACORN employees giving illegal advice.
The ensuing controversy cost ACORN their federal funding and turned O’Keefe into a conservative rock star.
Well he’s back. This time in hand-cuffs.
O’Keefe and three others were arrested earlier this week for allegedly attempting to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D LA) office. More specifically the phones.
Two members of the crew entered Landrieu’s New Orleans office dressed in construction garb (think Bob The Builder). After tampering with the phone system in the Landrieu’s office the two, posing as repair men, asked for access to the building’s main telephone system.
Here is where the wheels started to come off. The two were asked for identification, when they could produce none suspicions were raised. Shortly after all four were arrested by federal marshals. …read more.
