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Sides. this is a particular fight over obama care and the new information funded by the koch brothers and others. jason, political parties are no longer the main source for campaign cash that they once were and the reform of earmarks means leaders don t trade for votes the way they used to. so parties and congressional leaders actually have less control. i mean on one side campaign finance and earmark reform, maybe has it had unintended consequences of making leaders less relevant and, therefore, gridlock more likely? yeah, when they have to court super pacs that make or break congressional races now and they can t do that directly so they do that through their votes, then we have democracy by proxy. what we re what we re heading towards with the supreme court possibly lifting these limits is turning every congressman into newt gingrich who is such a ....

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