TPP: SOPA on Steroids

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow GazetteSince 2007 when George W. Bush lurked in the Oval Office, the United States has been in secret negotiations to cut a trade agreement with several Pacific rim countries called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)[...]

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Reckless Romney

"I would point out that we have one president at a time and one administration at a time," President Obama said in June, responding to a critical op-ed by a Romney adviser in a German newspaper. "And I think traditionally, the notion has been that America?s political differences end at the water?s edge.? The president was merely restating one of the nation's oldest remaining traditions of bipartisan comity. The op-ed kerfuffle was, of course, absolutely nothing compared to the Romney campaign's latest break from that tradition. On Tuesday night his campaign rushed out a naked attempt to politicize the death of four American diplomats, including a U.S. ambassador, at the country's embassy in Libya. Before all of the dead had been identified, Romney's campaign blasted forth a press release trotting out his familiar?not to mention false?claim that Obama "apologizes for America." 

By morning it was clear that Romney had blundered badly. Even other Republicans were taking him to task (see Daily Meme, below). When Romney called an early morning press availability, it was assumed that he would walk back the crass injection of attack politics into an overseas crisis. Instead, he hunkered down and made matters worse.  It wouldn't have been surprising for Romney to unleash his criticism after the crisis has calmed. But his hasty, unreasoned reaction was baffling even to his critics. This wasn't just a political misfire; there could still have been lives at risk when Romney unloaded on the president. Elections matter, but keeping government employees abroad safe?and making it clear in moments of crisis that the nation is united?is a first priority.

It's been clear from the start that a Romney presidency, captive to the radical right, would wreak havoc in terms of domestic policy, gutting the remnants of the social safety net to cut taxes and erase the regulations that keep Wall Street in check. Yet Romney has maintained some air of credibility, of competence. His overeagerness to capitalize politically on a tragedy, ignoring any higher responsibilties, could shatter what's left of that veneer. 

So They Say

"Governor Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later."

?President Obama to CBS News, responding to Mitt Romney's foreign-policy flub

 Daily Meme: Romney Left to Fend for Self

• Democrats were?obviously?outraged by Romney's response to the crisis in Libya. But Republicans have been quite miffed by their presidential candidate too. 
• Former Reagan speechwriter and eternally opinionated Peggy Noonan said, ?In times of great drama and heightened crisis ? I always think discretion is the way to go.?
• Former ambassador Jon Huntsman said, "This is above all a reminder that politics should end at the waters' edge."
• Indiana Senator Dick Lugar said, ?I?m not going to make any comment about the political. None."
• Some Republicans did echo Romney's words, like Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon: "Again and again under President Obama we have met threats and thugs with apologies and concessions."
• Sarah Palin wrote on her Facebook wall,"We already know that President Obama likes to 'speak softly' to our enemies. If he doesn?t have a 'big stick' to carry, maybe it?s time for him to grow one."
• Most Republicans stayed above the fray, though. Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan knew what to say: ?The attacks on our diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya ... this is outrageous. Our hearts are heavy. And our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.?
• Senators McCain, Lieberman, and Graham released a joint statement saying, "We cannot give in to the temptation to believe that our support for the democratic aspirations of people in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere in the broader Middle East is naive or mistaken."

What We're Writing

• Jamelle Bouie thinks that Romney's no-good Libya response could have big ramifications for his campaign.
• Steve Erickson explains Mitt's foibles by way of character study.

What We're Reading

• Michael Lewis profiles Obama for the new Vanity Fair, managing to shine some new light on a well-worn subject.
• Nate Silver teases out the reasons for split tickets in an Arkansas that has forgotten Democrats exist on the presidential level post-Clinton.
• Romney's hopes for a 1980-style comeback are a tad too optimistic, writes Nate Cohn. 
• Buzzfeed interviews America's biggest political rockstar and quipster laureate, Bill Clinton.
• Fall fundraising is a new, annoying chore presidential candidates need to do in a post-public-financing world.
• ?Rockin? Romney Friday Nite GOPizza Parties"?The Onion imagines Romney's latest appeal to young voters.

Poll of the Day

An internal poll shows that Paul Ryan's House seat may be more up for grabs than originally thought. The survey shows his challenger, Rob Zerban, only behind by 8 percentage points among likely voters. Ryan's last internal poll, on the other hand, shows the incumbent up by 25 percent.

For more polling information, go to the Prospect?s 2012 election map.

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Benghazi Attacks May Have Been Pre-Planned

To pull back from focusing on the Romney campaign, relative to the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, we're starting to learn more about the attacks themselves, and their significance inside Libya. More evidence has arisen suggesting these[...]

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Watchdog Warns Sebelius Wrongly Mixed Politics
With Work

Updated: 6:30PM

The Office of Special Counsel notified President Barack Obama on Wednesday that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she "made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity" during a speech before the Human Rights Campaign earlier this year.

But "appropriate and timely steps" taken by HHS to ensure the government was reimbursed for all travel costs had "cured any violation" of a statute which bans the U.S. Treasury from paying for the costs of the political activity, according to the OSC report.

During the February speech in North Carolina, Sebelius went off-script and said it was "hugely important to make sure that we reelect the President and elect a Democratic governor here in North Carolina," according to the OSC report.

HHS "retroactively reclassified the event as political" two days after the trip and said the federal government would not be paying for it, according to the report. Sebelius explained to OSC investigators that she "got a little caught up in the notion that the gains which had been made would clearly not continue without the President's reelection."

Sebelius told the investigators she was "not intending to use an official capacity to do a political event. I think it veered into political space at an official event and I regret that it occurred."

Late update: White House spokesman Eric Schultz told the Associated Press that the remarks were "extemporaneous" and said the U.S. Treasury "has been reimbursed, and Secretary Sebelius has met with ethics experts to ensure this never happens again."

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The National Bloggers Club and their Super PAC
Friends

Co-authored with Alex Brant-Zawadzki and Bill Schmalfeldt. Research assistance by Melissa Brewer.

Ali Akbar, now President of the National Bloggers Club, is one of the conservative blogosphere's most infamous characters. He began his campaign of notoriety with a crime spree in 2006, blazing a six-year trail of fraud. That's him up there, in the mug shots. Akbar's story is as improbable as the Tea Party movement itself, and a lesson on the privileges of power in the age of Citizens United. How did a petty crook rise to these heights in such a short time? Why does he enjoy such influential connections today?

We ask these questions because we see an emerging bipartisan consensus that Akbar's National Bloggers Club (NBC) is entirely notional. Akbar has never applied to the IRS for 501(c)3 status -- despite having claimed as much on the NBC Facebook page. While the NBC requires an unusual amount of personal information from donors, they do not offer those donors an EIN (Employer ID Number) to make their contributions tax deductible.

An EIN is provided upon application for nonprofit status, and should be available if the National Bloggers Club has applied. It is an easy online process. Yet we have been unable to locate an EIN in any database, and inquiries by both liberal and conservative bloggers have been met with silence. When journalist Bill Schmalfeldt contacted the Internal Revenue Service, he was informed that no EIN existed in their database for a National Bloggers Club.

This would be less distressing if Akbar didn't have a long history of covering up his tracks and minimizing his criminal past. In 2006, he stole items from a woman's home; he later broke into a vehicle, stole a debit card, and withdrew money from the victim's account, earning a felony conviction. Yet this record did not keep Akbar out of Republican politics.

Barely a year later, Akbar was accused of discussing election fraud tactics. The accuser, Joey A. Dauben, was a former colleague. In coverage of the controversy, Akbar was frequently and mistakenly identified as a John McCain campaign staffer due to his involvement in Bloggers for McCain, a "cooperating" website independent from the campaign itself. Akbar also caught flak for ?scrubbing the web? to cover the tracks of Michael Meissner, a former police chief who was charged with posing as a woman and soliciting photos of underaged boys.

In April 2008, Akbar pleaded guilty to the debit card fraud and was sentenced to four years probation and restitution of the stolen money. His probation ended in May of this year. In the meantime, Akbar has built quite a blog empire for himself -- and runs it from his mother's house.

By 2008 Akbar had linked up with Eric Odom's Don't Go movement. They likely met up when Akbar?s firm, Republic Modern, designed the old website of Sam Adams Alliance, for which Odom was the new media director. When Odom started American Liberty Alliance (ALA), a tea party website that was mainly in the business of monetizing other Tea Party sites with ads, he brought Akbar along with him. Starting off as ALA?s Technology Consultant, Akbar would eventually became Chairman of ALA's Board, spending much of his time collecting non-deductible donations.

Yes, despite claiming to be in the application process for 501(c) 4 status in August 2009, ALA eventually was embarrassed into posting the following caveat on their website (though not their donation page): ?The American Liberty Alliance is not a 501c3, 501c4 or a PAC. We are not registered as a non-profit and we do not raise funds as such.? Yet they incorporated under the name ?American Liberty Alliance - A Non-Profit Corporation.?

The most excoriating examination of the ALA came from Erick Erickson, who reported that ALA had eventually been rolled up into an Eric Odom PAC:

For a number of months I have had more than my share of phone calls from conservative donors, bloggers, activists, campaigns, and others wishing someone would speak out. Several tried pushing this story into the mainstream media, but we all know what would happen there ? we?d turn people into martyrs who shouldn?t be.

At best this conduct looks like ignorance of the complex bureaucracy and regulations surrounding the FEC. At its worst, it looks like . . . well, you decide. I?m sure even more will come out now that I?m willing to speak up and it does not look like a case of simple ignorance. If it were an isolated incident it?d be one thing, but it is a pattern.

Indeed, the pattern begins with a profitable deception. Although ALA was registered as a non-profit in Nevada, as far as we can determine they never actually applied for non-profit status with the IRS, despite always claiming they were "in the process" of doing so. The pattern repeats with NBC, which incorporated in Texas as a non-profit, and has collected donations as a non-profit, without ever applying for legal non-profit designation. (The NBC has scrubbed 501(c)3 language from its donations page at Rally.org.) Our attempts to reach the law firm listed as the NBC's registered agent have been rebuffed.

These dubious credentials in the new Tea Party movement propelled Akbar into the upper echelons of conservative organizing, where he has apparently met Karl Rove. Yet Akbar seems to have done remarkably little real work during his ascension. Take the NBC's website, for example, which contains no content -- just a redirect to the group's Facebook page. There, you will find grassroots conservatives wondering how to join, and why the donation practices are so intrusive:

Like many of Akbar's websites, content doesn't seem to be key. For example, despite supposedly representing a robust movement, Akbar's Tea Party Brew.com has surprisingly few posts. Bill Murphy, now the Social Media Director for the Romney campaign, wrote the final post at that site in February. By then, he had been Akbar's venture partner since 2009.

Murphy (right) was Director of Strategic Initiatives for American Liberty Alliance, though the position does not appear on his LinkedIn resume. Murphy was also Akbar's partner in an organization called Vice & Victory, which put on the BlogBash party at CPAC in February. Akbar was listed as the Host Organizer and Murphy as the Event Coordinator. BlogBash?s director is usually identified as Devon Wills, but many of NBC?s announcements and press releases offer contact information for "Bill Murphy at director@blogbash.com." Yet the BlogBash website doesn't even mention the NBC, which supposedly organized the event.

When he appeared on the radio program of conservative Larry Sinclair in March, Murphy also identified himself as the Director of the NBC -- though that position also does not appear on his resume. Whenever he has been asked about such omissions, Murphy has responded by further scrubbing his LinkedIn profile. Sinclair now calls foul on Akbar and Murphy's notional blogging club for using Andrew Breitbart's name to raise money for a scholarship fund -- again, while claiming 501(3)c status was "pending:"

In March 2012 we received an email which came from Bill Murphy and Ali Akbar from BlogBash.org and Vice and Victory email addresses announcing the creation of an Andrew Breitbart Scholarship Fund. After receiving the email and because of our own personal encounters with Andrew Sinclair News decided we would do a feature story on the Scholarship fund. In preparing the story we sent an email to Joel Pollak who was the primary Breitbart.com principle since the untimely death of Andrew early the morning of March 1, 2012. In the email to Mr. Pollak we asked if Pollak would be interested in going on Through the Mirror w/Larry Sinclair to talk about the recently established Breitbart Scholarship Fund. Pollak responded almost immediately by telling us he knew nothing of any such fund; that anyone using Andrews name along with any such fund was doing so without authorization and Pollak even went to the point of saying that any such organization was in his opinion a scam. (Emphasis added)

Aside from Michelle Malkin, nobody knows who is on the board of the NBC, or how they were selected. NBC won't even say whether they have any bylaws, and has never applied for non-profit status. If the NBC was an ACORN office, Malkin would denounce it as a criminal organization. Instead, she is Akbar's public ally and defender.

These inconsistencies had already drawn criticism from conservatives when we began reporting on them. First was Paul Lemmen, a convicted con artist working out his redemption in his blog, "An Ex Con's View." As the details of Akbar's criminal record appeared on the website Breitbart Unmasked in May and June, Lemmen expressed disdain for the fact that "the other side" had been the one to reveal Akbar's criminal past. Citing the NBC's disturbing lack of transparency and its behavior with donors, Lemmen called for transparency and accountability.

As a result of his outspoken blogging, Lemmen received the close attention of NBC "enforcer" and Andrew Breitbart protege Lee Stranahan amid a series of attack posts by other bloggers. Lemmen fell silent for a while, reemerging later to write on more general topics. Today, he is a member of North American Conservative Bloggers United (NACBU), a new association of conservative indie bloggers opposed to the NBC and its opaque operations. In supporting Lemmen, David West called out Akbar for elitism:

See, Ali Akbar was the ?technical guru? for a while behind the Don?t Go Movement which I was a part of as Northwest Regional Coordinator. I, however, was ignored back then by Mr Ackbar. When he formed the NBC, I was ignored as well.

The NBC billed itself in part as an organization that could give bloggers desperately-needed press credentials. Those who have received credentials are unable to activate them as instructed. The NBC does not explain how to receive a credential, or even describe any standards for applicants. NACBU organizer "Impolite Canadian" just wanted to webcast an event; after being rebuffed in all attempts to learn more about how to obtain the privileges of membership, the pseudonymous blogger concluded that NBC was simply a club of Akbar's friends:

It's like they all of a sudden became part of the ''elites'', encouraging and defending the ''mastermind'', but when asked how does one join this ''elite'' club, you get the ''I dunno man, it just happened, u know?''.

There are only 340 "likes" on the NBC Facebook page at the time of this writing -- far fewer than one would expect for a popular netroots organization. Ladd Ehlinger, Jr., aka FilmLadd, questioned whether the NBC was even a real organization:

Screw Ali's political connections. You love him? Want to blacklist me? Be my guest. Won't be the first time that's happened. Been happening for two years now anyway. It's the sort of thing I think Ali likes to do to people who get crosswise with him - trash them, prevent them from getting work, and so on. I could regale you with first-hand stories I've heard, but this post is already too goddamn long.

Akbar did not prevent Ladd from getting work. In fact, Ehlinger received a plum new gig from Washington lobbyist Dan Backer of DB Capitol Strategies. He serves as Treasurer for many well-known PACs, including the Conservative Action Fund, which has already given Akbar's "Vice & Victory Fund" over $44,000 in 2012. Backer is also Treasurer for Stop This Insanity Inc PAC, which recently signed Ehlinger to a complex $10,000 contract. Ehlinger hasn't spoken out on the subject of Ali Akbar ever since.

Backer (right) is the attorney who created "hybrid Super PACs" through his Carey v. FEC lawsuit in 2011. As part of his contract, Ehlinger agreed to be classified as an employee and then kick back $1,500 to Stop This Insanity Inc PAC, creating an opportunity to challenge federal limits on employee PAC contributions. Backer also wants to lift limits on contributions to federal candidates. True freedom, Backer argues, is American billionaires donating more hard political money every year than an average American family makes.

Dan Backer's other PAC products include Todd Cefaratti, who became infamous for fleecing PAC donors and using his for-profit JoinTheTeaParty.us website as a lead generator for spam. Cefaratti was found out by activists at Free Republic, who quickly discovered that his real estate sales lead business was named Glengary Inc. Despite grassroots revulsion at this character from a David Mamet play, Cefaratti spoke at CPAC in February. He and his Glengary LLC are also party to Dan Backer's FEC suit with Ehlinger. Stop This Insanity Inc. runs another one of Cefaratti's websites, TheTeaParty.net.

The "made men" of the Inner Party are never held accountable. Their revolution has been monetized: shirts, buttons, email addresses, and page views turn dedicated activists into revenue streams for "producers." Meanwhile, these same "producers" also get paid by billionaires and PAC lawyers who benefit from stoking the grassroots fires on behalf of their corporate agenda. It's a great job if you can get it. No wonder Akbar likes to throw big, exclusive parties at CPAC and the Republican National Convention.

In order to make the BlogBash party an instant institution this year, Akbar and Murphy took money from a host of the usual suspects in astroturf politics, including Americans For Prosperity, FreedomWorks, and the vote-suppressing True The Vote organization. Billionaire and megadonor Foster Friess also helped throw Akbar's party at CPAC, then cracked a terrible joke about aspirin as a form of birth control: "You know, back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn?t that costly.? Friess has vowed to spend a large chunk of his fortune through Karl Rove's American Crossroads this year.

We believe the National Bloggers Club encapsulates a problem common to Tea Party organizing since February 2009. As with Mark Meckler, the multilevel marketing billionaire who organized Tea Party Patriots, we see a disturbing pattern of grift in the National Bloggers Club. Sincere Americans have been organized to prevent corporate regulation and billionaire tax hikes; the organizers fleece them while also accepting money from representatives of these same corporations and billionaires.

This charade may be close to an end, however. Larry Sinclair has presented the National Bloggers Club with a demand they publish the following:

The names of every National Bloggers Club Board member including the date each became associated with the NBC

A complete financial report showing the amounts of all monies paid to in contributions; services; or sponsorships made to NBC or BlogBash.

A Complete financial reporting of all funds paid out by NBC or BlogBash including the names of those receiving said payments and the reasons for each.

A complete financial accounting of all funds paid out by NBC/Blogbash including an accounting of what the payments were for and if they were made for the personal benefit of Ali Akbar or any other member of the NBC Board.

A complete accounting of all contributions made to the Breitbart Scholarship Fund as well as an accounting of all disbursements of said funds as well as the name of the financial institution(s) where contributions are on deposit.

A statement as to Bill Murphy?s position with NBC and BlogBash; whether Murphy has been involved in any NBC/BlogBash activities and or promotions since becoming Mitt Romney for President Social Media Director?

The IRS 501(c)(3) documents confirming the below stated claim by NBC:

"National Bloggers Club is a new 501(c)(3) founded by top new media operatives, bloggers and journalists as a loose association of bloggers who are for free enterprise and limited government and to advocate on bloggers behalf."

In the spirit of nonpartisan opposition to criminal misbehavior and opaque political activity, we join these conservative voices in calling for accountability. Akbar has been dishonest about his criminal record. His organization has been dishonest about its non-profit status. The NBC did not ask Breitbart's family before asking for donations in his name. Their associations with powerful figures in the world of campaign finance have not been able to fully silence grassroots opposition to their questionable practices:

These aren?t unfair questions. They are very simple, basic questions spoken without malice or any agenda save that of telling the truth. And has already been noted, the truth has no agenda. It?s just the truth.

Conservative bloggers are asking for simple transparency -- and being refused. Liberal bloggers meet only scorn and harassment for asking the same legitimate questions. We believe it is time for "real" journalists to consider this information, as no mere blogger of any political persuasion will ever glean answers from the National Bloggers Club or their Super PAC friends. They are apparently a law unto themselves.

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An Obama Bump Just Look.

At this point, the post-convention trend looks pretty clear. Trend chart after the jump ...[...]

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The "savage" one will never apologize.

"But we must be clear-eyed even in our grief. This was an attack by a small and savage group, not the people or government of Libya,"

I don't think that the "small and savage group" Secretary of State Clinton was referring to was Mitt Romney and his band of Neoconservative advisors.

But still, there was Mitt, just a day after September 11 he was attacking the president for the death of an American ambassador by a "savage group" of religious extremists on foreign soil. I think that rather than trying to comprehend the true nature of the act that killed the Ambassador to Libya, the professional campaigner in chief thought that he saw a political opening and jumped right into it. But Mitt would be wise to follow an old trial lawyer adage of never going into something unless he knows what's on the other side.

"Then all hell broke loose and four Americans were murdered in Benghazi. (AFTER the initial American Embassy statement)

But by 10 p.m. Boston time, before the last beacon of light dimmed at Ground Zero, before Taps had finished echoing through Lower Manhattan, before the last grieving family member had gone to bed on a politics- and politician-free

9/11 commemoration, Romney headquarters issued an embargoed statement to the media on the barbaric attacks.

The campaign okayed its release at 12:01 a.m. Sept. 12." 

"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi," Romney said. "It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks." [Source]

Oh my! I wonder how the family of John Christopher Stevens feels. Did Mr. Romney even offer his condolences to the Ambassador and others who were killed? Outrage was the mood of the day; not sorrow or empathy. No wonder Mitt had Clint Eastwood do his empty chair act at his convention. I guess he is trying to channel his inner tough guy. 

Anyway, rather than back down from his disgraceful and inglorious statements, Mitt has doubled down on his actions from earlier in the day.

"Their administration spoke. The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth, but also from the words that come from his ambassadors from his administration, from his embassies, from his State Department," he said. "They clearly sent mixed messages to the world and the statement that came from the administration and the embassy is the administration. The statement that came from the administration was -- was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a -- a severe miscalculation." [Source] 

Yes Mitt, way to go; attack the president and his Ambassadors.

Still, it would have been nice if you waited until after we buried them.  




 

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Everything Romney touches about foreign policy
goes wrong

Once again, Mitt Romney wades into foreign policy, and once again Mitt Romney screws up.The UK OlympicsFirst there was his visit to the UK for the Olympics, where he offended our top ally again, and again, and again. Romney's staff also used the occasion of the foreign trip to take a potshot at the President, something that has traditionally been frowned upon by politicians when...

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Today on The Stars Hollow Gazette

Our regular featured content-On This Day In History September 12 by TheMomCatPunting the Pundits by TheMomCatAnd these featured articles-No Dancing VII by: ek hornbeckTPP: SOPA on Steroids by: TheMomCatUS Envoy & 3 Others Killed in Libya by: TheMomcatWe[...]

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New Study Finds High-Income Tax Cuts Dont
Stimulate Economic Growth

Congressional Republicans and their party’s presidential nominee have both pushed plans to cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans in hopes that such a move would stimulate the economy and aid the recovery from the Great Recession. A new study, however, indicates that tax cuts for the wealthiest earners fail to generate economic growth at the [...]



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