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“The jabs at Mitch McConnell have been coming on the air and in the mail, accusing the Senate Republican leader of helping President Obama and letting down Kentucky voters.
The attacks are not the work of McConnell’s conservative primary challenger. Instead, they are coming from independent groups that want to unseat him and are benefitting from a new system of unlimited contributions ushered in by the Supreme Court in its 2010 Citizens United v. FEC ruling.
Conservatives cheered that decision, described at the time by McConnell as a “First Amendment triumph.” But, as McConnell’s experience now illustrates, the loosened rules are causing political headaches for the GOP — allowing tea party groups to bring more financial firepower to challenges against Republican incumbents.
Now, party leaders struggling to unify the warring wings in time to retake the Senate this year and lay a foundation for the 2016 presidential race are instead contending with a well-financed insurgency.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Matea Gold and Dan Keating / Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-unexpected-legacy-of-citizens-united-more-money-to-finance-gops-intraparty-war/2014/02/01/df40aba0-8484-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html
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