It would be an amazing coup for the Democrats to hire the guy and steal that position, but that's simply not gonna happen.
Haha, no, not with Dodd in charge of the MPAA and Biden in the VP's office.
Interestingly, this whole sequence of events is probably the most blatant federal example of a party being bought and paid for I can think of in a little while (not THAT long). I mean, that stuff is always bubbling pretty visibly near the surface these days, but this was even closer than most events.
Yeah, it's like they're not even trying. I mean, there was that half-assed little "This had nothing to do with Hollywood lobbyists, the paper was just released without proper review" nonsense, but I can't imagine they expect anyone will actually believe that.
Not that voters will notice of course.
Right -- this isn't going to get a whole lot of coverage in the mainstream press.
As far as the independent online press, well, hellooooo Streisand Effect, but ultimately this is just going to be one more small piece of the GOP's excruciatingly slow slide to public disfavor. Most people quite simply don't vote based on copyright stance. (Though that, of course, is a catch-22; if a major-party candidate WERE to take a public stand on the subject that was different from every other damn major-party candidate's, I imagine we'd see a bump in the youth vote.) Hell, as impressed as I am by Khanna's position on copyright, if he were to run for office I'd still have to hear his stance on science/women/immigrants/gays/the disabled before I'd commit to voting for him.
I DO see Khanna landing on his feet; SOMEBODY is going to want to hire him after this.