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The Right Wants Unlimited Anonymous Spending On Campaigns, Or To Put It Another Way Republicans Proudly Proclaim They Are Already Bought And Paid For

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If you are on the right or the left, unlimited anonymous spending on campaigns is a bad idea. Every dirty trick you think you might get away with because of this, the other side can do as well. It eventually will destroy our democracy.

Contact your senator now and tell them you are sick of unlimited anonymous spending on campaigns.

11 thoughts on “The Right Wants Unlimited Anonymous Spending On Campaigns, Or To Put It Another Way Republicans Proudly Proclaim They Are Already Bought And Paid For”

  1. The decision by the Supreme Court upheld the 1st Amendment right which states that “Congress shall make no law ….. abridging the freedom of speech…..”
    Of course Obama lies again, no surprise there. It would be good to see this criminal behind bars along with Soros and Bloomberg and Pelosi.

  2. The Supreme Court extended freedom of speech to corporations, which is not what the 1st amendment was intended to protect. Corporations are imaginary – ensuring their freedom of speech would be just silly, if corporations did not already exercise so much control over the ‘information’ we consume.

    How this has anything to do with Obama’s veracity I do not know.

  3. Mr Cady,
    Corporations are assemblages of people and they have as much right to free speech as any other assemblage of people, i.e. labor unions, church groups, political action committees, the ACLU, the ABA, ACORN, etc.
    Corporations are not intrinsicly evil as Obama and the left in general slander them as such.
    Obama lies about this issue as he lies about most things.

  4. Mr. Cady,
    One specific lie that Obama tells is that corporations have unlimited amounts of money to spend on attack ads. Corporations do not have unlimited amounts of money and they certainly have less money that tax-exempt left wing mountains of money such as Harvard and Yale Universities and the Ford and MacArthur Foundations.
    Left wing phillipics against corporations should fool only the weak and lazy minded.

  5. I actually think I agree with you, Patrick, if you’re saying ”Left Wing’ philanthropics against corporations should fool no-one’. I agree because what you call left wing mountains of money are invested in the very same corporations you support. It’s like ‘good cop – bad cop’, they are really on the same side, leaving you and me struggling together against them, (with you not helping much, so far).
    With their protection against owners being liable for incorporated mistakes, corporations are like one-way valves for money – In good times, money goes to the protected owners; in bad times, owners cut loose the corp – it goes bankrupt, but the owners lose nothing.

  6. Mr. Cady,
    Phillipic is another word for diatribe, And yeah, there is some game playing going on. I think the late comedian George Carlin may have been on to something when he said there’s a club and we ain’t in it.
    As to the subject of this dialogue, free speech, I say more is better than less. I’m so much for free speech that I regard the conviction of Gov. Blagojevich of lying to the FBI as an affront to that right. If we have free speech we should be free to lie to anyone. That isn’t an endorsement of lying, just of free speech.

  7. It gets sillier – we have the amendment against slavery, and the policy that corporations are legally persons, yet corporate owners don’t get arrested for slavery. Incidentally, that ‘corporations are legally persons’ policy was not decided by a US Supreme Court Justice, yet it is in a Supreme Court Decision because a clerk of the court, an ex-railroad owner, added it in, and not one Justice has questioned it since.

  8. Thanks, Patrick, for telling me what phillipic means.
    What are we supposed to do when the richest now earn four times as much as they did thirty-odd years ago? They didn’t suddenly wake up to greed, and give up their slacking -off ways this generation – technology changed and we’re nearing the end of the Monopoly game, which is less and less fun for most of us. I guess I am missing the inherent virtue in it all, huh?

  10. The act of paying [off] a politician in secret is known as taking a BRIBE! Why anyone can construe that, as free speech, is beyond me. Truly the world is turned upside down! When will common sense rule?

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