Obama to Dems: I’m Not Going to Spread My Wealth Around!
Well, we knew that already. But that evil predatory capitalist, Mitt Romney, is writing checks for three million smackeroos to the Republican House and Senate victory committees:
Unlike President Barack Obama, who’s drawn complaints for being stingy with his campaign cash, Mitt Romney is spreading the wealth among his GOP congressional allies.
Romney’s biggest grossing committee last month steered at least $3 million to boost GOP congressional candidates who will share the ballot with him, according to finance reports filed last week.
Romney Victory, a joint fundraising committee set up by Romney’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, on the last day of July transferred $1.5 million each to the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are so far behind in fundraising, that the big guns issued a warning to the President:
Obama’s campaign had transferred money to the Democratic committees in 2008 and 2010, but has yet to do so this year, despite pleas from top Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Reid and Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). They and other lawmakers have implored Obama’s campaign both to transfer at least $10 million to the Party’s congressional campaign arms and also not to max out wealthy donors.
All this comes courtesy of Ed Morrissey, who adds:
I’d guess that the fundraising problems had already become apparent by March, but not the risk of getting so thoroughly beaten on that front. They certainly knew that Team Obama couldn’t count on parity on the super-PAC front, but everyone assumed that the Obama campaign would at least keep pace with the Romney campaign, if not outraise them. Instead, despite Barack Obama having conducted a record number of fundraisers, far outstripping George W. Bush’s 2003-4 number months ago, Team Obama is more than $60 million behind at the end of last month.
The move is also interesting for another reason. Those conservatives who are less than enthused by a Romney candidacy have pledged to work for a Republican majority in the Senate and stronger majority in the House to keep Romney on the conservative policy path. As this donation shows, Romney seems to be in complete agreement with them.
The Obama camp had planned to run a Reaganesque “morning in America” campaign based on a booming economy, and to handily out-raise the GOP nominee.
They planned… poorly.
To run on a “booming economy”, there would have to be a booming economy in place.
The progs can’t run Congress and/or the White House for 6 years, behaving like progs the entire time, and then wish a booming economy into being for just long enough to get their Eschaton re-Immanetized.
They thought it would work, they really did. They passed the stimulus then went to work on cap’n'trade and healthcare and Wall Street, because they honestly thought that the stimulus would work — and that the rest of their legislative and regulatory agenda wouldn’t hurt.
Idiots. Self-satisified, know-it-all idiots.
No, Steve, they did not think the “stimulus” would work. They did not think it was necessary. It was purely a slush-fund for political payoff. They thought the economy would rebound all on its own, “like it always does”. Government policies, like raising tax rates, have no effect on it.
That’s where the idiocy is. They have absolutely no idea how the economy works. The money just happens. It will always be there. So clearly, they can use it to provide their Socialist Utopia. Rainbows and unicorns and Skittles for all.
Their idiocy is deeper than you know.
I dunno how much of that is a fault exclusive to proggies, tho. Keynesian economic theory has been the conventional wisdom on both the left and the right dating back at least to Nixon. It would be a mistake to assume that replacing Obama and D majority in the Senate will result in non-stupid economic policies being implemented.
There is a great deal of work left to be done.
Here’s a little comedy gold that was made back in 2008. It’s a projected Obama 2012 campaign ad called “Yes, he did,” complete with kiddie choir and happy new homeowners.
I think they thought it was gonna happen, I really do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqIq53pJWA
This cash advantage on the senate front has nt really materialized in the polls. Despite having fewer seats up and most of them safe…. senate was looking to end up 51-49 even before aikens idiocy.