Norcross: They are in Permanent Campaign Mode

On Wednesday, Chris wrote about how Obama sells access to the White House for his campaign's top donors and fundraisers. Peter Roff, writing for U.S. News and World Report wrote a piece about it quoting RNLA Chair David Norcross. The White House denied any notion of impropriety:

Presidential aides, unsurprisingly, deny the existence of a plan that uses the White House and specialized access to it as a fundraising tool. "Contributing does not guarantee a ticket to the White House, nor does it prohibit the contributor from visiting," deputy White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said, an assertion that critics of the fundraising activities revealed in the story find laughable.

Roff then quotes Norcross:

"Who believes anything that comes out of the White House or the president anymore," said Republican National Lawyers Association Chairman David Norcross said. "They are in permanent campaign mode and that for them has always meant saying whatever it takes to capitalize on the moment."

Norcross, an expert on campaign finance law and a former general counsel to the Republican National Committee, says the Times' revelations reveal hypocrisy of the highest order. "No lobbyists, no special interest influence, no campaign contributor shenanigans, was the pitch during the campaign. Now it is worse than business as usual; unelected, unconfirmed czars over heaven knows what, compensation control, bailouts for newspapers, attacks on media which has the temerity to disagree," he says, adding, "I am surprised at nothing."