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Collectively, their contributions have totaled more than $50 million this cycle, making them easily the most influential and powerful political donors in politics today. They have relatively few Democratic counterparts so far, with most of the leading liberal donors from past years giving relatively small amounts — or not at all — to the Democratic super PACs. (NYT, 2/21/2012)


Twenty three paragraphs today on Republican Super PAC donors. We learn that they are "secretive" and "reluctant to talk." For balance, we get the comment above that rich Liberals give very little. Soros, Lewis, Geffen.....all minor players then.


And by the way, the Washington Post today also gives us twenty three paragraphs on Republican Super PAC donors! And you thought we had an objective and independent press in this country! (To be fair, the Post includes a slide show depicting Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg as Dem Super PAC contributors, along with four Republican contributors - just to get the numbers right.)


Secret Code
The administration plan to revamp a corporate code that is widely derided as inefficient and anticompetitive has been in the works at Treasury for two years, and is a priority of Mr. Geithner. Yet he has been preoccupied with crisis management, and is unlikely to see the project through since he plans to leave office after this year. (NYT, 2/22/2012)


So RedStateVT gives Geithner an "Incomplete" on his work. On second thought, change that to "Fail."


Hall Pass
When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman. For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue. 


Now Rick Santorum is campaigning for president. He too says that marriage is between a man and a woman. What a different reaction he gets.

There's no mystery why. Mr. Santorum is attacked because everyone understands that he means what he says. 


President Obama, by contrast, gets a pass because everyone understands—nudge nudge, wink wink—that he's not telling the truth. The press understands that this is just one of those things a Democratic candidate has to say so he doesn't rile up the great unwashed.

It's arguably the most glaring double standard in American life today. (William McGurn, WSJ, 2/21/2012)


A devastating - and irrefutable - indictment of the media.