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Here's a story about another gathering of the Republican uber-rich. That in itself is not remarkable as the Koch's have been funding these things for years.
What's interesting is this from page 2 of the article:
"...And he notes that previous guests have included Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, Gov. Haley Barbour and Gov. Bobby Jindal, Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, and Representatives Mike Pence, Tom Price and Paul D. Ryan..."
Why are Supreme Court justices involved in planning sessions for either political party? What business do they have involving themselves in partisan politics?
Ah, now the left hates freedom of assocation as well.
Does it really matter? Even the appearance of impropriety damages the Court and calls into question the agenda of those corporate millionaires and their Republican cronies.
While it would probably be impossible to establish a definitive quid pro quo, it's interesting to note that both Scalia and Thomas voted for the Court ruling last January which opened the door to unlimited corporate funding of political ads, a decision which is even now resulting in a flood of campaign ads in Congressional races all over the country. In fact, it was that ruling which allowed Karl Rove to create his money pipeline called American Crossroads which is funneling cash from unknown sources into Republican campaigns.
Well yeah of course it matters because as even Huffpo points out there is no problem with them attending as speakers, it happensa ll the time. Your idea of appearance of impropriety and that of impartial observers are clearly 2 different things.
Ah, now the left hates freedom of assocation as well.
That's a rather novel excuse for approving of this and one which doesn't address the issue.
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