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If You Use Georgia
Pacific Paper Products, Barack Obama Wants You To Turn Yourself In
Posted by Erick Erickson
Thursday, March 1st
Georgia-Pacific makes a lot of household paper products. Quilted
Northern toilet paper, Angel Soft toilet paper, Brawny paper towels,
Dixie cups, Vanity Fair napkins, etc. If you use any of them, Barack
Obama wants you to report yourself to the government. No, I’m not
making this up.
On twitter last night, whoever the idiot is who runs the President’s
twitter feed (I assume it is not him), put up this tweet reading:
Add your name to demand that the Koch brothers make their donors
public: http://OFA.BO/mfLtZX
Now, I know the President is pretty clueless about the free market
system, but I did not realize he was that clueless. The Koch Brothers
make their money by providing goods and services within the free
market. Their donors are actually customers buying products. That’s how
they got their money. And in Barack Obama’s America, it is increasingly
hard to do in the private sector.
In truth, I have no doubt the President really wants to target for
harassment those people contributing to political groups organized by
the Koch Brothers. You are willfully naive if you think that won’t
happen. Look what happened to so many who contributed to Proposition 8
in California. Look at the labor union goons who show up at people’s
houses to harass them and their families.
It is not disclosure the President wants. It is a list of names his
supporters can intimidate and harass.
In the 2008 campaign, the President’s campaign intentionally turned off
the safeguards to his online donations form — the safeguards used to
make sure his campaign complied with federal law accepting campaign
donations. Because those safeguard were out, foreign citizens outside
the country were able to donate to the President’s campaign. Small
donors are not disclosed.
If the President is serious about disclosure, perhaps the President
should release the names of his small donors. We know John Galt of Ayn
Rand Lane was one of his donors with no problem. Who else did so? Oh,
some Palestinians in October of 2007 who donated from a refugee camp in
Gaza. They weren’t caught until sometime around August of 2008 after 32
successful contributions.
The Obama campaign has had a storied history of returning contributions
really, really slowly.
So, Mr. President — if you believe in transparency, given your
campaign’s ridiculous history of allowing phony low dollar
contributions from made up people, why don’t you realize all your low
dollar donors before you start demanding the Koch Brothers release
anything?
By the way, do we want to talk about foreign donors to labor unions?
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