Congress--a Millionaires club or just a pig's trough?


	Congress--a Millionaires club or just a pig's trough?

papananook

7-23-2008 9:26 AM

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Of the pig, by the pig and for the pig! Oink is the only sound you hear on Capitol Hill nowadays...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce882df3-688f-44ec-b590-bd8d67e4b8e1/8CC19407-9B87-4856-BC17-5A14ED1E8D47/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/" href="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/" style="font-size: 11px;">theboard.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>There is no Plutocratic Party yet, but these are certainly boom times for rich people in politics.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>When the parties go out recruiting candidates for Congress these days, they aggressively seek out candidates who can “self-fund” — that is, spend millions of their own dollars to win office.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>At the start of this campaign season, at least 24 House candidates triggered the “millionaire’s amendment” in the campaign finance law — a provision designed to help level the playing field when a candidate runs against a rich opponent who spends a lot of his or her own money. <A id="more-292"></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>If you’re worried that Congress is becoming a rich person’s club, you may be interested to know that the Supreme Court has gotten involved — on the side of the rich candidates.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>Last month, it struck down the “millionaire’s amendment,” part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/they-have-millions-of-good-reasons-for-being-in-congress/"><P>It’s too early to know if the winner will be a Democrat or a Republican.  It looks like a lock, though, that he will be a millionaire.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8CC19407-9B87-4856-BC17-5A14ED1E8D47/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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