Liberals spend big money to stop the spending of big money in politics

Andy Kroll writes in Mother Jones:

A month after President Barack Obama won reelection, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal politics met at the headquarters of the National Education Association (NEA), a few blocks north of the White House. ... At the end of the day, many of the attendees closed with a pledge of money and staff resources to build a national, coordinated campaign around three goals: getting big money out of politics, expanding the voting rolls while fighting voter ID laws, and rewriting Senate rules to curb the use of the filibuster to block legislation. The groups in attendance pledged a total of millions of dollars and dozens of organizers to form a united front on these issues. ... "It was so exciting," says Michael Brune, the Sierra Club's executive director. "We weren't just wringing our hands about the Koch brothers. We were saying, 'I'll put in this amount of dollars and this many organizers.'" ... The campaign, Brune says, has since been attracting other members—and also interest from foundations looking to give money. [emphasis added]

Are liberals really so stupid that they don't realize that "spending millions of dollars to get big money out of politics" is just another example of spending big money on politics. We are asked to believe that it is by definition bad when the Koch brothers spend big money to advance their conservative political views, but it is by definition good when the NEA, the SEIU, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Communication Workers of America (CWA), the AFl-CIO, and the NAACP (all of whom were attendees at the meeting) spend big money to try to silence the Koches and to advance their liberal agenda. OpenSecrets.org lists the NEA and SEIU as 4th and 5th on its list of "heavy hitter" political donors. Other liberal heavy hitters, according to OpenSecrets, include ActBlue, AFSCME, and the AFL-CIO.

Liberal hypocrisy at its worst.