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2010-01-21 Home Front: Politix

Supreme Court rolls back campaign cash limits

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-01-21 10:51|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Yet another step towards centralized power and strengthening of special interests. I still don't get how the Bill of Rights applies to corporations. That seems to be the basic rationale behind the Supreme Court's decision.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-21 11:43|| 2010-01-21 11:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

McCain Feingold unconstitutional? Who would have guessed? I think about 200 million talk show hosts and various assorted constitutional lawyers on the right.

So much for DailyKos and Politico...you guys now don't have a bully pulpit and Soros and all of his phony 527 PAC's can go pound sand.

I would hope this helps the donks roll back from the brink of leftist politics since those little nannering weinies on the left don't have the clout they had yesterday. Probably not...but this means that the Dems now have a cash flow problem and there are a lot of corporations out there that will vote with their pocket books on all of the proposed taxes and the crazy crap fines and levies in the "Healthcare Reform and Economic Confiscation Action of 2010"

This is starting to look like a political blood bath that will make the mid term elections in Clinton's first term look like a kindergarten party...Bambi's in trouble and I don't know if his ego will take it.

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-01-21 11:55|| 2010-01-21 11:55|| Front Page Top

#3 AH I'm not so sure about that. One of, if not the biggest, tagets of McCain-Feingols was the Corporation called the National Rifle Association. The fact that Unions and other Corporations were caught up in it was an unfoseen accident. I think this descision was correct.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-01-21 12:18|| 2010-01-21 12:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you USSC for striking a blow for freedom and loosening the shackles placed upon us by well intentioned fools.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2010-01-21 12:30|| 2010-01-21 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Schumer calls for hearings on 'un-American' court decision

Posted by Beavis 2010-01-21 14:21|| 2010-01-21 14:21|| Front Page Top

#6 What exactly has Chuckie and Obamie so upset? As someone said there must be something good in the decision by SCOTUS.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-01-21 15:08|| 2010-01-21 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Right or wrong, isn't this what the separation of powers and checks and balances is all about?

And since the article describes legislation introduced to address the SCOTUS decision, it seems the system is working as advertized.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2010-01-21 15:47|| 2010-01-21 15:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Big Journalism has coverage here.

Including a PDF of the decision.

President Obama immediately issued a statement opposing the decision. As the Washington Post reports::

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. We are going to talk with bipartisan congressional leaders to develop a forceful response to this decision.

Drown out the voices of everyday Americans eh? You mean like the people you BARRED from even seeing the healthcare debate (while allowing the Unions to dictate terms).

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-21 19:22|| 2010-01-21 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I still don't get how the Bill of Rights applies to corporations.

A long standing principle in American jurisprudence is that corporations are individuals because they are composed of individuals.

As such the Bill of Rights extends to institutions because American jurisprudence recognizes that corporations are in reality individuals which have combined resources towards a common goal

And because they are collectives of individuals, they have as a group the same rights as an individual.

The Left has been playing a flimflam for about a hundred years attacking institutions which make profit as being less worthy than other groups, such as political parties, while ignoring that all institutions including those create to make a profit out of some business activity have the same right to speech as any individual, A corollary to that is that nothing in a free society stops any group of individuals from combining their resources in the political arena even if it is for the purpose of one single election.

What made McCain Feingold such an egregious attack on civil liberties was the regulations during an election which constricted speech at a time when speech should be unfettered.

SCOTUS gets this one right and then some, correcting an awful error and a solution on free society.

You'll noticed that McCain-Feingold was passed by a republican congress and signed by Bush, something the Left won't admit amidst their wailing and mourning.

Posted by badanov 2010-01-21 21:43|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-01-21 21:43|| Front Page Top

#10 WMF > AL QAEDA'S STRATEGY TO INDUCE AMERICA INTO OVERCOMSUMPTION OF ITS VITAL RESOURCES AND INCUR GRADUAL UNRECOVERABLE NATIONAL, GLOBAL BANKRUPTCY IS WORKING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-21 23:10|| 2010-01-21 23:10|| Front Page Top

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