Democracy's Achilles Heel

One of the most unfortunate aspects of our political system is the ability for special interests to hide behind "people's" organizations that the special interest itself creates as a front group. A glaring example of this is an organization calling itself 60plus.org that is currently filling the commercial time on CNN and other networks with misleading ads about proposed health care reform. I won't go into detail about the obvious falsehoods in their ad but suffice it to say that this organization is designed to appear to be a membership group of senior citizens while it is in fact funded and created by the pharmaceutical industry. Take a look at their website and at reports about them here and here. Any organization that lies about its true nature is not an organization to be believed. In fact, it should be illegal.