This
piece--published in the Free Press--is a picture perfect example of everything that is wrong with the Beltway media. Seems Mr. Henry C. Jackson of the Associated Press (badly in need of a new career) did himself some serious research and reported the usual he said/she said on the virtue of laws being sought by Congress. Both parties, according to serious journalist Jackson, are guilty of trying to pass laws only to help their guys running for President.
Nowhere in the piece does serious journalist Jackson ever offer any context. Nowhere in the piece does serious journalist Jackson discuss the merits of the laws being sought.
Here's the horrible bills brought up by the Democrats: full disclosure for campaign donors who make donations in excess of $10,000, ending tax breaks for corporations shipping jobs overseas, and making certain that Presidential candidates have to disclose any offshore tax havens they may possess. How exactly these awful laws will help Mr. Obama's re-election isn't mentioned by serious journalist Jackson, because God knows that laws that help us to find out who is trying to buy our government, stop corporate welfare for companies that do not have our best national interests in their policies, and having a tax cheat for a President are all some kind of commie plots.
Here are the bills presented by the republicans as noted by serious journalist Jackson: repeal Obamacare (yawn) and continuing the Bush tax cuts. Because, you know, having more healthy people would be such a detriment for the country and the Bush tax cuts did so much to stimulate our economy.
We'd be much better off as a nation if the Associated Press wasn't so half-assed--and if writers like serious journalist Jackson were sent packing.
Peace,
emaycee
