Now’s the time for Obama to stand behind words on political spending
Via The Hill
In his speech to the White House Correspondents’ Association on Saturday night, President Obama spoke about the Koch brothers and the massive amounts of money they intend to spend on the 2016 election. He compared the so-called “Koch brothers primary” to the TV show “The Bachelor,” saying, “Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker — who will finally get that red rose?”
Later, he mentioned the “non-stop focus on billionaire donors.” These are just the latest in a series of comments the president has made on the need to deal with the problem of excessive money in politics, and in particular, “dark money,” in the system.
In this year’s State of the Union address, he said “a better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads that pull us into the gutter, and spend more time lifting young people up, with a sense of purpose and possibility, and asking them to join in the great mission of building America.”
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