Isn't the Chamber a non-profit? Aren't non-profits supposed to be apolitical? Don't churches that push political views on their members and actively campaign for a political position at risk of losing their tax exempt status? Lobbyists are obviously for profit, but a quick search turns up articles about non-profit Chamber of Commerce branches. If you call a local CoC and complain, they will say the "national" office is running the ad. Is the "national" office separate and for profit as a lobbying group? Do Dems have the gumption to challenge this and fight back?

Whether there are actual foreign donations or not may not be the most damning point in all this. What is really galling is how the Chamber is deciding unilaterally that the interests of business supersede that of the nation, its various cities and states and workers. It used to be that we didn't make these distinctions. It was assumed that what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Well, you can't assume that anymore. Corporate interests have been filleted and artfully separated from the nations they reside in. The right has yet to pay any price, of course, for giving corporate tax breaks for offshoring jobs. And yokels will doubtlessly swallow the advertising swill the Chambers buys. But they will buy something that is often directly inimical to not only their self-interest but that of the nation they purport to love.

A vote for Miller is a vote for the local jack-booted militia! The allegiance to whom will be the only thing left to question! -Kevo

The reason demonstrably mendacious ads attacking Democrats have not been scrutinized by the media is because the media is on the same side as the Chamber of Commerce and the Repugnicans. For two years now, the MSM has done everything it can to denigrate Obama and lift up even the most odious Republican party hack. This is the reason Newt Gingrich gets to make the cable rounds everytime he farts out loud and why John "I've gladly lost any principle I might have once had" McCain is the go-to pol on the Sunday morning talking heads shows.

The GOP's tenuous grip on logic seems to be based upon the following statement:

"A supposition based on a supposition cannot be refuted".

For instance, "God made the moon, therefore God exists".

Or, "Republicans have never increased the deficit, therefore Republicans are fiscal conservatives". Bwah hah hah! And if you believe that, I can get you a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Not only does it rehash tired and misguided Republican talking points, but it relies heavily on a report commissioned by House Republicans.

Not only does it rely on a report commissioned by House Republicans, that report was on the House version of the bill in November 2009, which was abandoned in order to pass the Senate version in December 2009, followed by the "fixes" to the bill passed in March 2010. Any resemblance between the Chamber's cited report and the actual bill is absolutely coincidental.

Just because Citizen's United gave corporations the right to shovel busloads of money into political races, based on the premise of "free speech", doesn't mean they have the right to lie and deliberately obfuscate the truth to potential voters. They need to be held accountable for this.