This is how we lost our democracy: In the 2012 election cycle, 216 people... contributed over $560 million to super PACs alone... Thanks to Citizens United, these outside groups can now use the threat of a primary challenge backed by multimillion-dollar ad buys to force their agendas. Norman Ornstein, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, estimates that there are about 30 hardliners in the House driving the government shutdown and another 150 Republicans who are just playing along out of sheer terror of crossing the incredibly powerful coalition of post-Citizens United interest groups.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:29:16 +0000
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