In August 2012, the DC Beltway political corporation called No Labels announced that “We’re building a No Labels PAC in order to provide financial support for elected officials who are committed to problem solving. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details.”
But there have been no more details. No Labels has made no further communication on the subject. No PAC or independent expenditure committee appears in FEC registrations under any variant of the name of No Labels or operating at the two known addresses of No Labels (1070 Thomas Jefferson Street NW, Suite 202, Washington DC 20007 and 1680 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington D.C. 20007).
No Labels PAC? Despite the huge gobs of undisclosed money orbiting around the influence sphere of billionaire Peter G. Peterson, there’s been No Action.
That’s a good thing, right?
Well, yeah, I think so. But regardless of what a person’s policy position might be, I think it’s just so darned interesting to watch an organization with a constituency in money managers and billionaires basically fritter away its economic advantage by being openly inconsistent, lackadaisical and just darned silly.
Sometimes I think there must be someone inside outfits like No Labels and Americans Elect who has wormed his or her way into the leadership just so she/he can think up things to do within the organization to take it down. The groups’ silliness while managing to get on national TV is almost inexplicable otherwise.
Yep, I hear ya. It’s truly amazing how ineffectual these orgs are. But like I say, that’s a good thing. They’re consuming the dollars and the attention of billionaires who would redesign our nation along lines more favorable to themselves, and doing so ineffectively. Huzzah.
I hear you too. And yet — these people keep coming up with new shell organizations, and those shell organizations keep getting booked onto national news shows on cable and network TV, under the mantle of the “sensible center,” as if they didn’t have a horse in the race and as if they were quiet competent Americans who only want the government to be run the way they run their own operations.
It needs to be pointed out: if the government was actually run the way these people run their own operations, we’d all be in the gutter right now dying of scurvy, cholera and multiple gunshot wounds.
So that’s why I point out what’s really going on in these organizations — these are not the quietly competent people who only want what’s “best for America” and have sensible solutions all ready to go. They’re highly interested people tied to big-money interest who are about as far from sensible as you can get.