Obama is full of it on Campaign Finance Reform

"I've always known Chris Van Hollen and Chuck Schumer were political hacks...but Obama is the worst of the entire bunch.  Post-partisan, pleeeez."

The image is still vibrant in my mind.  Obama, during the state of the union, chastises the Supreme Court for its ruling in the Citizens United case.  He calls for reform to remove corporate influence from politics.

Fast forward to today and Congressional Democrats plan to bring "reform" up for a vote in the Senate in the near future.  Majority Leader Harry Reid spurned hearings and instead wants to take the bill to the floor.  Obama has taken to criticizing Republicans recently for their opposition to the "Disclosure Act."  And, of course, Obama's backers in the mainstream media are falling appropriately into line with his views.

But, in reading an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal, called "The Schumer for Majority Leader Act," it paints a completely different picture of this "reform" legislation.  Among other elements of the legislation -- conveniently overlooked by the biased, left-wing media, are:

• Yet what they've proposed is a blatantly partisan bill sponsored by two Members whose main duty is electing Democrats. The House version, which passed last month on partisan lines, is sponsored by Representative Chris Van Hollen, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The companion bill in the Senate was introduced by Charles Schumer, the two-time head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee who is in a backroom battle with Dick Durbin to succeed Harry Reid as Majority Leader.
• Even provisions that ostensibly apply to both corporations and unions would in practice mostly restrict the ability of corporations to participate in elections. For example, the government contractor restriction applies to those with contracts of $10 million or more, a threshold met by many corporations but few unions. 

So, we learn that the heads of the DCCC and DSCC are the "authors" of this so-called reform that would serve to silence corporate opinion in the political debate but give left-wing supporters -- unions and others -- the ability to aggressively and actively spew their left-wing rhetoric and, ultimately, influence the election.

For a presidential candidate who campaigned on being "post-partisan," Obama has only served to increase and further divide America along political lines.  Shame on Barack. 

But, come November, America will "right" itself -- literally and figuratively.