Everywhere you look, it’s MoveOn.org
Procrustes
It seems that
Organizing for America or Obama 2012 is not the only tool available in The Unpresident’s toolbox to hammer disobedient members of Congress into submission.
An RBO tipster sent along this interesting little
tidbit from MoveOn.org:
Can you chip in to pass Obama’s economic recovery plan?
If we don’t raise the heat on swing-vote Republican senators, then the plan is likely to fail—or get gutted. That’s why we put together a powerful new TV ad targeting Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Charles Grassley (R-IA).
Although the email that accompanied the link only asked for $25, the action page asks for $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000, $2000 or “Other $”.
As we asked in our November 18, 2008, article reposted below, is this a “Coincidence or not?” It certainly raises a number of questions.
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Why, if Organizing for America was formed to help drive home PSBHO’s agenda using his mega list of campaign contacts, is it necessary for MoveOn.org to be emailing its list begging for dollars?
Besides, where’s PSBHO’s post-partisan Congress? You know, the one that was going to work as one-aisle-united and hand him everything he needs.
Most importantly, if PSBHO’s economic recovery plan is a shoo-in for Democrats to pass in the Senate, why the full-court financial press — to raise funds to harrass Republicans?
We are reposting our November 18, 2008, article because it provides linkage to hundreds of thousands of names available through other MoveOn.org entities. RBO began with the following Caveat, which applies just as much now as it did three months ago:
By now we should all be used to the idea that lines cross, criss cross, and cross over again any time one attempts to trace a direct pathway between Barack Obama and anyone else. If you have tried to do this, you thoroughly understand the complexity — and frustration — of the task.
In this particular instance, the starting point had nothing to do with the destination. This article began as RBO continued to poke around in that declassified, highly-redacted August 1976 FBI report on the Weather Underground. It was completely unexpected that we would arrive where we did.