Watchdog Groups Demand a Senate Vote on The DISCLOSE Act Before the August Recess

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Source: PR Newswire

Call On Senator Harry Reid To Tell GOP Senators, "No Vote, No Vacation"

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Protect Our Elections calls on Senator Harry Reid to tell Republican Senators, "No Vote, No Vacation!"

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the DISCLOSE Act to put some common sense limits on corporate funding of elections. But last week, when the bill was called for a vote in the Senate, Senate Republicans voted unanimously to continue debate, which effectively kept the vote from occurring.


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This campaign was mentioned on Keith Olbermann tonight, and has been picked up by a number of online news outlets.

[msongs]

1. congress should get the same vacation time as the typical employed American and not one day more nt

[tomm2thumbs]

2. good idea - or actually as much as the least of us get

that oughta make them rethink the status quo

[dotymed]

8. exactly right.

Most Americans can not afford homes, let alone vacations. If these people are "our representatives", they must have some common ground with us not their corporate masters.

[mikeburetta]

10. congressional work week

I remember Senator Byrd remarking how things had changed over the years and less and less got done because actual working days in senate had shrunk ie in late on mondays with no votes and out by thursday and party conferences on tuesday and... well you get the picture...

[laughingliberal]

14. Only by making them live under the same conditions as the rest of us will the conditions...

change. Hey! How about 'merit' raises?

[breadandwine]

3. Unfortunately, this will go nowhere. It used to be that Democrats would bring in cots

to ride out a filibuster. Not anymore. Today the Democratic leadership doesn't have the balls for a fight.


There are also ways to end the filibuster. As I recall it was called the "nuclear option." There are things that can be done but it would cause chaos on Capitol Hill as the other side would try to tear down the temple in response. BUT THEY'RE DOING THAT ANYWAY.

So nobody on our side has the guts to go eyeball to eyeball with the GOP.

Of course we wouldn't want a civil war in this country. Except that there already is. It's just all one-sided. The other side wages war on us and we do nothing.

But but but but the media might get mad at us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So we do nothing.

And that is how it is going to continue because we are a party of wimps.

[mikeburetta]

9. bring in the rollaway beds!

Yes its high time that the bluff of filibuster be faced with..ok bring it on you want to filibuster 24 hrs a day reading commic books n nursery rymes more power to ya gop buy a truckload a coffee and we all can watch till ya drop n cry uncle . Question after a few of those think they would have stomake for any more?

[ggallegos13]

4. Looks like some right wingers need detention

This makes me sick. Everyone knows that the Republicans are just stalling so they can get more votes to vote against it in November. I don't even like they having this recess. This is not the time. It's time for politicians to stop depending on their corporate allies to get them money. I am fall for putting limits on corporate funding for elections.

[Kurovski]

5. I would think TeaParty types would agree.

will they, I wonder?

Michelle Bachmann and Mrs. Palin should be on this one.

Corporations buying Government for unfair advantage over everyone else is repellent to all Americans.

Welcome, g.

[SpiralHawk]

6. The TeaBagglicons are ultimately a RepubliCorporate creation

so I don't expect them to lift their voices in their Mighty Whine. A little whimpering on the fringes while their Big Daddy (R), delays and obstructs so the corporations can continue to operate occultly in support of RepubliCorporate sockpuppets.

[Kurovski]

7. That's the brief topic of my latest journal addition.

But there have to be at least some Partiers who are sincere and figuring out.


But what the fuck do I know? :) I do like your "teabagglicon" crack. :D it sounds so fancy. Like a Gilded Age term!

[russspeakeasy]

11. You aren't serious !

Palin, Bachman, America...This has nothing to do with America
it has everything to do with power...

[Kurovski]

19. I'm saying...if some of the rhetoric matched reality

tea'ers would forever be on the ass of banks, Oil, and other bullying corporations that feed off the public dole. The reps as well. Sarah would be tossed out of the hall for her cozy oil Co.support

(My fondness for the absurd sometimes gets the better of me.)

EDIT: Please, check out the journal entry I linked to above. It's two paragraphs. It doesn't negate the fact that the tea'ers COULD have been fully legitimate.

They're mostly worried about a black pres. that's their chief "complaint" as I've listen in over the past months. and their lack of interest in corporations' abuses and the runaway costs of war just underscores that fact for me.

[ggallegos13]

22. Detention for you, Mr.

Of course they will. Procedural crap is what they are all about. Look at the whole Weiner thing. Why was he so pissed? Because the GOP denied a ground breaking bill for the victims of 9/11 all because they didn't like the procedure change.

By the way, I also like that Teabagglicon crack the other guy posted.

[Kurovski]

23. I like to believe that people eventually figure things out.

Detain me, but please I beg of you, no rendition. ;)

[xchrom]

12. recommend

[NorthCarolina]

13. This will go nowhere. The DLC New Dems don't want Disclosure any more than the GOP does. eom

[ProSense]

15. McConnell Filibusters DISCLOSE Act After Decades Of Demanding Campaign Finance Reform

McConnell Filibusters DISCLOSE Act After Decades Of Demanding Campaign Finance Reform

The Democratic leadership in the Senate faced a setback last week as Senate Republicans locked arms for a filibuster and defeated an attempt to achieve cloture of debate on the DISCLOSE Act and bring it up for a vote.

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One particularly strident opponent of the DISCLOSE Act is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The senator has repeatedly attacked the legislation as infringing upon the rights of average Americans:

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Yet as McConnell’s hometown paper, the Lexington-Herald Ledger, pointed out in its editorial yesterday, the Minority Leader wasn’t always against any attempt to force special interests to disclose their campaign financing. The paper recalls that the senator has a long history of co-sponsoring and championing legislation that would expand campaign finance disclosure:

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The paper concludes, “Given McConnell’s 20-year devotion to the Holy Grail of disclosure, it (is) puzzling to hear him speak of it now as if it were the handiwork of Lucifer himself.”

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[Peggy Day]

16. Senator Chevron anyone?

Ever since the scous stated that any money could be donated to any person or initiative, we have no more elections. They can even lie now and get away with it in the media. All they have to do is keep repeating the same crap over and over and put in whatever dummy they want.
And we don't even know who the culprit is.

[wackywaggin]

17. One always has to wonder why

a politician in Washington will spend 1 million dollars campaining for a job that pays less than 200,000.00 a year.

Heretic Wack

[LaPera]

18. This is so incredibly important for our election process! It must be passed!!

[Kurovski]

20. Kick. (nt)

[SnoopDog]

21. Right...You think the biggest pussy in the Senate, Reid, will do this?

Sorry, Mr. pink tutu Democrat Reid won't do a thing....

Sorry, just look back at his record from 2001 to today...

We need REAL democrats in office....