Thursday, June 23, 2005

Read their Lips: "We're LYING"

Reminiscent of the infamous Healthy Forests Initiative, the Clear Skies Act, and Leave no Child Behing... the Washington Post nailed it today:

ONE RELIABLE TEST for judging legislation these days is to look at the title; more often than not, you can assume that the measure will accomplish almost precisely the opposite of what its name boasts. A fine example of this is the 527 Fairness Act of 2005, a campaign finance bill that is about neither so-called 527s -- the outside groups that played such an influential role during the 2004 campaign -- nor fairness. In fact, the bill -- which has been approved by the House Administration Committee -- is about undermining the 2002 campaign finance law and again allowing megabucks donors to wield dangerous amounts of influence over politicians and political parties.

Read more at the site above. The Bush administration takes snake oil to a whole new level.

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