While the mainstream media were abuzz with the "courageous" and "brilliant" move for Obama to fire General McChrystal and replace him with General Patraeus -- whom he and all the Left shamelessly derided and criticized when he was Bush's general, the Democrat House took a little more of our liberty away by passing the DISCLOSE Act.
In a way to thwart the Supreme Court's recent Citizens United ruling, Congress passed this Orwellian-titled piece of legislation to unconstitutionally limit the free political speech of whomever it wants.
As with virtually everything the Democrat Congress pushes, the motivation for this unconstitutional act is "fairness": to make sure the "little guy" gets as much of fair shake in this country as "big business," "the rrrrrich," or well-moneyed politically-connected organizations. Therefore, in order to "level the playing field," corporations will be required to disclose their top donors.
Unions and media outlets (who both favor Democrats; what a coinkidink) are not affected by this bill. Other entities who are exempt are the Sierra Club, AARP and, shamelessly, so is the NRA. Why? Because they made a deal with the devil, that's why. It's Soviet-style liberty cherry-picking. With the passing of this bill, Congress arbitrary gets to pick who can have freedom of political speech and who can't.
As Moe Lane at Red State says, elections have consequences.
There are other draconian rules in the bill, including those that set into motion the regulation of internet bloggers by the FEC.
Not surprisingly, the Obama White House praised the House passage of the bill. Sure why not. The Democrat Congress doesn't give a rat's ass about the Bill of Rights, why the hell should the Democrat White House?
And so, like a 30's European fascist regime, our federal government continues to chip, chip, chip away at our freedoms. And like frogs in slowly heated water, we citizens sit here at the whim of these totalitarians until one day soon enough people realize we are irreversibly boiling to death.
The passage of the DISCLOSE Act was the first issue discussed by Mark Levin on yesterday's show. Here he is:
[Edited for commercials, long pauses, and other extraneous content]
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