President Obama whines about Super PACs, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving his own Super PAC a great big hug.
President Barack Obama — in an act of hypocrisy or necessity, depending on the beholder — has reversed course and is now blessing the efforts of a sputtering super PAC, Priorities USA Action, organized to fight GOP dark-money attacks.
On Monday morning, Obama reviled the “negative” tone of the super PACs, a dominant fundraising source in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. But by the evening, word leaked to POLITICO that Obama had offered his support for Priorities USA Action, which thus far has raised a fraction of what GOP-backed groups have raked in.
Obama’s top campaign staff and even some Cabinet members will appear at super PAC events. The president himself will not address super PAC donors, although there’s nothing to legally prohibit the president, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden from expressing their support for the group — as GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney has done for the super PAC that backs him. …
I wonder if Senator Chuck Schumer will say this doesn’t pass the smell test.
Another awkward timing issue: Last week, Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer of New York, announced plans to hold hearings into whether Republican-backed super PACs had violated federal law banning coordination between super PACs and campaigns.
“It doesn’t pass the smell test to say some of these groups aren’t coordinated,” Schumer told reporters.
Read the whole thing, the announcement could have something to do with getting rich donors like George Soros to open up their wallets. Or maybe they’re trying to deflect attention away from the big donation he had to return to a fugitive.
In related news, the Obama campaign’s designer fundraising effort may be running afoul of election laws. But we all know the Democrats believe election laws are for others to follow.
Update: Via The Washington Examiner, here’s Obama in 2010 talking about Super PACs.
Update: Linked by Poh Diaries – thanks!
Tags: election laws, hypocrite, obama, Schumer, Super PAC
Corrupt bastard from Kenya!!!
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