Republican National Committee [3] Chairman Ken Mehlman [4] recently told NBC News' Elizabeth Wilner his assessment of the media's coverage of the White House. She writes, "He ventured that we were treating President Bush's Social Security proposal [5] like a political campaign rather than what it really is: a legislative effort." But "it's no accident" says Wilner. "The techniques of the campaign trail have become a staple of the Bush White House's approach to pushing its legislative agenda." The group Progress for America [6] may best exemplify the synthesis between electoral work and legislative advocacy. The group has recently been in the news pushing Bush's judicial appointments [7], opposing judicial filibusters [8], attacking Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid [9], and promoting Social Security privatization [10]. The Progress for America Voter Fund [11], a 527 group [12], spent $35,631,378 in support of Bush's reelection, making it the eighth largest spending 527 group of 2004. Democratic strategist Jim Jordan [13] called the efforts, "supersized versions of the fights by business interests," Wilner writes.