Our aspiring Galtian Overlord made Sheldon Adelson’s casino one of his first trips since being placed on the plutocrats’ ticket.
In keeping with Mr. Adelson’s penchant for staying below the radar, Romney aides refused to say who attended the meeting with Mr. Ryan, though the location (a private room at one of Mr. Adelson’s hotels) and leaks from the Romney camp left little doubt. And in keeping with laws that prohibit elected officials from explicitly asking donors for super PAC money, aides to Mr. Romney insisted before the event that the meeting was not a fund-raiser.
“It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser,” an aide told reporters. Asked if people were paying to attend, he repeated, “It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser.”
“It is not dinner; it is cuisine.”
Does anyone else remember a certain vice-president who assured us (seven times in one press conference) that he had committed no campaign finance crime because there was “no controlling legal authority” to enforce the law?
“It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser” could be the new “no controlling legal authority.”
There’s a difference: “No controlling legal authority” was a blatant legal manipulation akin to protecting oneself from being served a subpoena by instructing WH security to arrest anyone attempting to do so.
“It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser,” is more like changing the spelling of a crime in order to avoid prosecution. HTF does one define “finance event” anyway? What, if any, legal distinction is there?
HTF does one define “finance event” anyway? What, if any, legal distinction is there?
I’m going to guess there’s no legal distinction but the practical distinction is that at a fundraiser, you hobnob with people who are giving money to your campaign, but at a finance event, you directly receive marching orders from them.
If it’s another typical big-money runaround, there’s a law specifically relating to “fundraising events” and the theory is that by using different words, you’re in the clear.
Most new hospitals don’t have “Emergency Rooms” any more. They have “urgent care facilities.”
See, under the law an “Emergency Room” has to treat almost anyone who arrives in need of care, regardless of their financial status. An “urgent care facility” has no such legal obligation… if you don’t have the right insurance card or a big BIG stack of dead presidents in your back pocket, it’s out on your arse you go.
So… no more emergency rooms.
See how far we’ve fallen from “good Republican cloth coat” and “my kids would be heartbroken if we gave away Checkers.”
The crook and liar MO hasn’t changed. What has is how more much wealth the crooks and liars can amass today compared with sixty years ago.
How Adelson frustrated Olmert’s peace plan with the Palestinians offering a 2-state solution, see my diary – Adelson: Ousting of A President for Israel’s National Security.
Shining city on the hilltop could just as well be Jerusalem: mafia, dirty politics, bribes and citizens trampled.
Billionaires Have Fun With Citizens United
where is a good maid with a tape recorder when you need her?
Adelson probably has the wait staff stripped searched before entering the work space. He’s truly an evil man and an excellent argument for progressive taxation up to a top rate of 90% and a wealth tax on top of that to recoup what they have amassed over the decades when we failed to properly tax income and wealth.
It’s enhanced interrogation, not torture!
I still dream of waterboarding Cheney, just not as often.
Domestic version waterboarding to manage kids or for burglars a useful tactic to open a safe in case of a non cooperation.
Just want to do Cheney because he claimed it wasn’t torture. Would like him to have some first hand knowledge.
My God, who is running the RomneyRyan campaign? There doesn’t appear to be a single sentient being in the whole operation. Who thought it would be a good idea to send Paul Ryan to a semi-secret meeting with a secretive billionaire just a couple of days after adding him to the ticket? Either keep it a secret or don’t, for God’s sake! If you try to keep it a secret and get found out, you can always just lie about it like everything else. It’s the worst of both worlds to let it be known that this meeting is taking place but to refuse to say anything else about it except to insist that no one is breaking the law. I swear, pretty soon they’re going to be handing out bumper stickers that say “Fuck you! Vote Romney/Ryan.”
“Carl’s Jr 2012: Fuck You, I’m Eating.”
no harm no foul for Romney camp. Other than here and maybe twitter, NO ONE that I’ve seen has even reported it. I do believe this may be the first thing written certainly nothing on TV newsers.
Hmm, good point. It pretty much is secret. (Nobody I know voted for Nixon.)
My God, who is running the RomneyRyan campaign?
Someone who isn’t nearly as good at this as Mark Penn.
Barack Obama must have been very, very good in his last life. Maybe he ran for county board and lost because the other guy stole his yard signs, but was really magnanimous about it.
Boehner holds call to calm House GOP
OT: Pennsylvanians better start organizing Voter ID registration campaigns and fundraising real quick. A dingbat PA judge would not issue an injunction to stop Pennsylvania’s voter disenfranchisement law.