So the upper echelon of the political party that controls the White House, the Senate, the executive bureaucracy,
and is 17 seats away from a House majority is committed to a group of insanely wealthy people who avoid disclosure and accountability by indirectly funding nonprofits. Yet this same party howls that Republicans are in the pocket of wealthy individuals. If only George Soros could buy the Democrats a sense of irony.
Elizabeth Warren is a special case. She and her opponent famously signed a “People’s Pledge” to limit outside spending in the Massachusetts Senate election. But so much depends on the meanings of “spending” and “outside.” Not only is Warren linked to
the Soros-affiliated think tank Demos through her daughter, who runs it, her campaign was
launched with donations from the Soros family and received $2 million in assistance in the final weeks of the contest
from the Harry Reid-affiliated Majority PAC. She
outraised and out-spent Scott Brown. The Center for Responsive Politics found that she
disclosed far less of the sources of her funding than Brown did. Yet no one can doubt she told her secret donors at the Democracy Alliance meeting that as a United States senator she would fight against the influence of the rich.