{"id":10894,"date":"2013-08-18T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T09:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10894"},"modified":"2013-08-18T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T09:11:06","slug":"making-the-fec-aid-election-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/18\/making-the-fec-aid-election-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the FEC Aid Election Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans already have more ways to steal an election than the very dirtiest, mangiest dawg <\/em>has fleas.  Every time I turn around, there\u2019s another one!  Their problem they face is that most of them are blatantly illegal.  What ever is a Republican to do?  Well, fearing that the sheriff might be a problem, they are trying to hog-tie the sheriff.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18FEC-GOP\"Republican operatives are charging forward with their efforts to sabotage the Federal Election Commission in its lawful obligation to police campaign abuses<\/strong>. The six-member commission is evenly divided between the two parties, but the Republican vice chairman, Donald McGahn, has spent his tenure as a partisan obstructionist, adroitly engineering 3-to-3 standoff votes to block penalties and other recommendations by staff investigators who uncover abuses by big-money campaigners. <\/p>\n

Now Mr. McGahn aims to take advantage of a temporary Democratic vacancy and 3-to-2 Republican edge to push through rules that would make total lackeys of commission staff members by blocking them from the usual sharing of information with the Justice Department and other agencies. In his partisan cunning, Mr. McGahn would even bar them from looking into possible violations publicly reported in news media and on the Internet<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

It is critically important when the commission meets next week that this attempt to gut investigative procedures be kept off the agenda until a full, six-member panel is in place. Two nominees \u2014 to fill the vacancy and to replace Mr. McGahn, whose term is up \u2014 await approval in the Senate. Washington\u2019s major watchdog groups have said that the McGahn proposal would gravely undermine campaign law and that the issue is of such importance that it should be taken up only by a full panel\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It amazes me the the Senate confirmed McGahn, considering his ties<\/a> to Americans for a Republican Majority, the NRCC, and Tom Delay\u2019s bogus charity.<\/font><\/p>\n

The two nominees are currently tied up in the Senate due to a Republican filibuster.  Hey Leg-Hound Harry!  Nuke the filibastards!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans already have more ways to steal an election than the very dirtiest, mangiest dawg has fleas.  Every time I turn around, there\u2019s another one!  Their problem they face is that most of them are blatantly illegal.  What ever is a Republican to do?  Well, fearing that the sheriff might be a problem, they are […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}