You Can Trust The FEC. To Get It Wrong.

You know what I think of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizen's United. Now here's some examples of why I think it was the worst mistake the Court has ever made. Aside from the fact that Super PACs from the Republican Party alone, are spending more on attack ads in 2012 than both party's Pacs and both candidates did in 2008, they don't have to announce who gave them the money. And that doesn't even account for the Democrat Super PACs. I've also mentioned groups like the Chamber of Commerce  doing "back door" conversions to avoid additional rules that would require them to give up the names of donors of the nearly $100 million they want to spend on attack ads. The 'Center To Protect Patient Rights' operates out of a Post Office Box # 72465 and has given $55 million  in 2010 for attack ads. It's believed most of the money came from the Koch brothers. Big Oil magnets from the Midwest. But they spent the money in over a dozen states. Mostly not in the Midwest. Now of course we can count on the FEC to protect us from bad players, right? Absolutely not. A federal judge had to overrule the  FEC in at least one case when the FEC came out against disclosure of donor names. Hey, even the Supreme Court got that part right. Now the American Future Fund, another attack group, has asked the FEC if they can mention the "Administration" and would that mean they weren't targeting anyone in particular. If they say the Administration did this or that, they wouldn't actually be talking about Obama, right? As if anyone would be confused about who they were talking about. The FEC (Federal Election Board) hasn't ruled on that. If they say it's okay, I suppose Obama supporters could then properly say that the "Man From Bain" did this or that and they could rightfully claim they weren't necessarily talking about Romney. How dumb is this? How dumb is the FEC? I guess we'll have to wait and see.