Rep. Eric Cantor is on the leading edge of implementing new social media tools to politics and governing. The latest: YouCut. Rep. Eric Cantor’s new YouCut project targets the presidential public funding matching program, among others. YouCut is a kind of crowdsourcing, allowing users to vote, online and on by cell phone, on spending cuts. […]
Month: May 2010
DISCLOSE Act: Democrats’ “blowout preventer?”
The Post takes a hard look at The DISCLOSE Act’s potential to chill and deter speech this morning. The problem is that the bill in Congress goes beyond disclosure, and even its authors say that it could, in practice, limit the involvement of corporations and unions in elections. “The deterrent effect should not be underestimated,” Sen. […]
The Times on secret holds
The Times writes about secret holds this morning. The games need to stop. Senators need to do their jobs. That means debating, confirming or rejecting nominees based on their merits.