The top order of business for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) this week was the DISCLOSE Act, a blatant attempt by liberals to circumvent and restrict the First Amendment.

Senate Democrats even staged a “midnight vigil” last night to promote their cause. That’s when the follies starting flying. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat, had the biggest whopper of the evening when he called for “limits on First Amendment rights” during his Senate speech.

While Schumer was ranting about the need for greater restrictions on free speech, other Democrats were complaining about the role of money in politics. Except, it seems, the sponsor of the DISCLOSE Act, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He left the debate to attend a political fundraiser.

Ultimately, the DISCLOSE Act failed to get the 60 votes necessary Tuesday afternoon. The final vote was 53 to 45.

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Editor's Note: They (Progressives) just keep chipping away at our Constitutional Rights...not the fake "entitlement rights," but the real and bedrock Constitutional Rights guaranteed under the Constitution...the very document that allowed for the federal government's creation.


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