Carney Targeted By Strange Bed Fellows

Has hell frozen over? Well, likely not, but it sure seemed that way when a group of libertarians converged with liberal bloggers for a new ad campaign.

"Strangebedfellows" is the appropriately named group that united in order to publicize perceived civil liberty threats --mainly those posed by increased government surveillance powers.

The group has organized the Accountability Now PAC which seeks to become a permanent fixture in the Washington political landscape.

The PAC is hoping to achieve a successful "money bomb" tomorrow. You may ask why August 8th? Well the group has a fitting answer for that as well. From their website:

"That is the day in 1974 when Richard Nixon was forced to resign from office for his lawbreaking and surveillance abuses. That day illustrates how far we have fallen in this country in less than 35 years, as we now not only permit rampant presidential lawbreaking and a limitless surveillance state, but have a bipartisan political class that endorses it and even retroactively protects the lawbreakers."

"Money bombs" was the term that Ron Paul brought to fame when supporters would seek to raise vast sums of money during a single, targeted day. Trevor Lyman, who organized the effort for Paul, is using his firm--Basic Media--for tomorrow's effort as well. Although several smaller ventures have failed for candidates down ticket from Paul, the new group is hoping that the anger on the left is fresh for the picking.

With the projected $1 million fundraising effort, the group seeks to to target three Democrats: Chris Carney, John Barrow, and Steny Hoyer. The group is hoping to raise enough money to mount a full fledged campaign against the three candidates consisting of newspaper ads, robocalls and other organized efforts.

One of the group's organizer's is Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald has been very outspoken on Chris Carney's perceived betrayal on FISA (see here and here).