Senator
Mitch McConnell isn't my favorite senator, but he is a zealous defender
of the First Amendment, and he gave a speech at the American Enterprises Institute where he slammed the Obama Administration for it's efforts to suppress free speech.
From Breitbart News, Senator McConnell says this:
McConnell is incensed over the administration’s use of government and
nongovernmental resources to target its political enemies. “They’ve used
the IRS, the FEC, the FCC, the SEC, their allies in the Obama campaign
to go after people who disagree with them. The Obama campaign has rifled
through the divorce records of a major donor to an opposing super PAC.
The government itself is intimidating donors. Appointees at the IRS and
other agencies are pursuing similar efforts to ferret out who is
contributing to outside groups critical of the administration so that
they can scare them off the playing field and shut them up.”
A video of that speech has been posted at the Ace Of Spades HQ, but it can't be embedded here. Go here to view it (note -- it's an hour long). But AoSHQ summarized the speech this way:
I
would imagine the thought has crossed a lot of liberal minds, "Hold on
there. I was never against freedom of speech. Being a Democrat was never
about curtailing basic freedoms." Well, if you're a liberal, watch it.
Mitch McConnell is neither a conservative firebrand nor a bitter
partisan. This is not a polemic; it's more of a simple recitation of
fact.
Pass this on to your friends and family. They need to understand that the November elections are important.
