The
Senate’s top
Republican on Friday portrayed the
Obama administration as an Orwellian-style authority bent on stifling free speech of dissidents and whose “radicalism” threatens the First Amendment.
Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell, in a speech at the
American Enterprise Institute, a
Washington conservative-leaning policy group, said the president’s push for strict donor- and contribution-disclosure requirements on most outside groups that spend money on political advertisements is a “political weapon” that can be used to target certain groups while leaving others alone.
“And that’s precisely what those who are pushing this legislation have in mind,” the
Kentucky Republican said. “This is nothing less than an effort by the government itself to exposes its critics to harassment and intimidation.”...
