Familiar pattern: Reason why Rove, GOP, et al are outraged by accusations of foreign

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donations to Chamber and his organization.

Rove would love the debate to be limited to the issue of foreign contributions. He is publicly appalled at the suggestion, but that's because he wants the battle to be there. He wants everyone talking about whether or not a foreign subsidiary of an american country is really "foreign". Or...if a foreign corp has an office in the USA, is it really foreign. Or...if we're talking about membership fees, is that really donation? Or...foreign donations only amount to a few hundred thousand dollars...what nitpicking from the left! He can muddy the waters around this issue for weeks.

He DOESN'T want the larger debate to be had...he DOESN'T want to talk about the huge amount of money the chamber and Rove' group has raised from corporations, mostly domestic. That's the REAL issue...the Citizens United issue. A shocking amount of money raised from CEOs and board rooms all over the country (and from other countries to a minor degree) is being used to buy key local elections. This is what Delay dreamed about...a better tool to provide a 100 year gop reign. The gop had most of the puzzle pieces in place before. Now, with citizens united you see fringe candidates getting 14 million in a month...and that doesn't include independent ads and campaigning efforts. The amount of money is almost overwhelming...which tells you how much money is on the line for corporations where small changes in tax or environmental policy can mean billions of dollars.

We see this tactic of distillation and diversion over and over from the gop, in which complex issues are boiled down to a false line in the sand, a simpler, single gray issue. The complex issue of torture by the USA somehow became just a debate of whether or not waterboarding two guys was a fraternity prank or torture and was it productive (rendition, deaths, Abu Ghraib photos, guantanamo, etc all faded into the background). The issue of the Iraq was was similarly distilled down to intelligence failures. Global warming discussions start and stop with alleged errors in backup data from one report. Health care is about socialism and tort reform.

Simplification and diversion. The more more Rove appears to show his outrage and bluster, the more that journalists, pundits, and politicians should be looking elsewhere for the real issue.

[tularetom]

1. Not to worry - Obama will apologize to Rove soon for raising the issue

And then only us hippies will be concerned about it anymore.

Actually I would love to distill the issue down even further. All the way down to Rove, the chamber of commerce and whoever, accepting campaign contributions from Islamic countries. I doubt that it would be too difficult to prove that Saudi money has been routed to some of these organizations. Our Democratic leaders should be screaming "Islamic money" at the top of their voices. The dumshit demographic would drop the corporate party like a hot potato after hearing this a few times.

Turn their scare mongering right back on them.

[DCKit]

2. Exactly. Don't allow Rove et al to frame the conversation.

Just keep hammering on the donations from Muslim countries and terrorists.

It's not as if they wouldn't do exactly the same thing - even if the documents had already been produced. It's just what they do.

Let's give Kkkarl a taste of his own poison.

[DCKit]

3. A point so good, DU made me repeat it. n/t

[spanone]

4. and no one has to tell who is giving what....a free for all

they will buy the next president

[Botany]

5. simple Meme

the red chinese are giving money to the chamber of commerce and other groups
to help elect repugs who protect the outsourcing of American jobs.