Politics

ThinkProgress continues on the Chamber beat, catching this interview Chuck Todd conducted with the Chamber of Commerce’s chief lobbyist Bruce Josten, discussing the TP ongoing investigation documenting the Chamber's foreign sources of funding.

Continuing the defiant attitude that the Chamber has continued to express, Josten steadfastly refused to consider disclosure, and tried...

The Village yawns and the traditional media continues to be cowed by the power of the Chamber of Commerce, reprinting with apparently no independent investigation whatever the Chamber tells them, all to further the meme that the corporate buy-out of our democracy isn't a big deal.

By doing so, they're missing a...

Among the 60,052 ads that right-wing groups have run since the beginning of August, many have been objectively proven to be just a bunch of lies. Greg Sargent has a partial list, just of the Chamber and Crossroads, and just on the Senate side.

Here's something important that's getting lost in...

ThinkProgress has a new investigation to supplement their story from last week that documented "the disclosure of fundraising documents U.S. Chamber staffers had been distributing to solicit foreign (even state-owned) companies to donate directly to the Chamber’s 501(c)(6)."

This new chapter of the investigation adds significantly to ThinkProgress's case with very...

Maybe this will make the Village stop yawning and start considering the extremely corrosive effect on democracy that secret groups buying members of Congress will create. Or not. Anyway, Karl Rove has decided that he needs a matched set. He's spent $56 million to buy the Senate, and has set a new fundraising...

Greg Sargent writes about the Very Serious People, and Republicans, who assert--with no evidence--that the source of the tens of millions being used to bash Dems this cycle doesn't matter to voters.

Mark Halperin, for instance, wondered allowed [sic] today: "I'm not sure how this appeals to voters." Halperin then stated...

The one thing the Chamber has strenuously refused to do since ThinkProgress first reported that foreign money is involved in their campaign spending is to deny, and provide evidence that they keep foreign money firewalled away from their campaign spending. They've instead, deflected attention and, if you can judge by articles over the...