Dems threaten lawsuits whenever there's a critical ad

DVT notes (via Instapundit) that the Democrats are making a habit of using lawyers' threats to keep the Club for Growth's ads off the air.

Last year, something similar to this happened when the Club for Growth ran an ad in South Dakota informing South Dakotans that Senator Daschle had just purchased a $2 million home on ritzy Foxhall Road in Washington, DC. The Rapid City Journal published a story on the matter headlined "Anti-Daschle ads prompt complaints over copyright."

The Club for Growth's Stephen Moore wrote in a piece headlined "Tom’s House Is a Very, Very, Very Nice House" that Daschle "worked tirelessly to pull the ads off the airwaves."

His protests have been almost comical. His first complaint was that the ads are misleading because he really does favor lower taxes. Hmmm, that's news to anyone who even casually follows politics in Washington. For at least the past ten years, Daschle has voted against anything that even has the whiff of a tax cut. He was the deciding vote in the Senate for Bill Clinton's mega-tax hike.

Next we heard from the '60s rock group Crosby, Stills, and Nash, which accused us of copyright violation, by parodying their music, and demanded that we cease and desist from running these ads. The law is very clear that this kind of usage is no copyright violation. And doesn't it seem like just yesterday that liberals were fanatics on First Amendment rights. Now they do everything in their power to suppress political speech — if it comes from the right side of the political spectrum. .