White House Suggesting Chamber Of Commerce funnels money to GOP campaign

[Dave]

One little problem though, they offer absolutely no proof of it. And its kind of a pot calling the kettle black situation anyway. Joe Biden asked the Chamber to show where the money is coming from... yet when Obama was on the campaign trail, taking in record amount of money a few years ago, The Obama campaign refused to show where the money was coming from. By the way, its completely legal for either to not disclose where the money is coming from. So, I think the White House better start offering some proof or else offer an apology. This is one of the things that makes me so ill with both of the big political parties.

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MSNBC's Guthrie reports WH officials say they will continue linking GOP and alleged foreign donors.

Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/12/dems-not-backing-off-foreign-mon...

Transcript:
Guthrie: "This is a White House definitely in campaign mode. The president's going to have one of these big rallies tonight here in Washington actually on the campus of George Washington University. He was in Miami last night at a couple of fundraisers for congressional races down there. One thing I noticed, he didn't renew the attack on the money, the idea that these Republican groups are funneling money into Republican campaigns. He didn't mention the Chamber of Commerce. I just got off the phone with somebody here, a senior official, who said it's not because they're dropping that argument, they aren't, but more because he shortened his speech. So we will hear that argument again. And we heard it from Vice-President Biden, basically issuing a challenge to the Chamber of Commerce saying, 'Show me the money. Show me that you don't use foreign dues to funnel money into campaigns here in the US.' The chamber says, 'We do not and that's that.' So this is one of the areas the White House certainly concentrating on a lot. We're going to see the president, as I said, out on the campaign trail. He'll be in Boston this weekend. He's got a joint event with the First Lady in Ohio on Sunday among other things."

Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2010/10/12/dems-not-backing-off-foreign-mon...

[XLFD]

I caught the Bob Schieffer-David Axelrod interview on Face the Nation about this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/10/ftn/main6944799.shtml

Seems like a weird charge to make without some hard evidence. They want to have the Chamber of Commerce prove that they don't do this, instead of substantiating any wrongdoing themselves. Sounds pretty desperate at this point.

[Dave]

Me thinks the administration is playing some politics going into the midterm elections. On top of this story, the administration also has lifted the ban on deep sea drilling.. just in time for the elections.. how convenient.