The Supreme Court believes the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson do not have enough influence on legislators and presidential candidates?-Boy, any day now, Fox “news” is going to devote a whole day decrying them Supreme Court activist judges, legislating from the bench.
First, “money is speech”. And now “freedom of speech” means that there should be no limits on how “loud” one speaks? Doesn’t that suddenly make all those laws against “disturbing the peace” unConstitutional?
We all need to know who is supporting the candidates. That is who they will be working for. They have no choice if they want to stay in office, you have to do the bidding of the person who is paying your way. Just the same as we all do in our jobs. So, before going to vote, look it up on the internet. Open Secrets is a good site, but there are plenty. If the candidate is getting his money from small donors, he is going to be working for the middle class. If his donations are from corporations or 1%er, don’t figure he is going to go against them and do anything for the middle class. It would be political suicide.
antnees about 10 years ago
Best little whorehouse in washington
whopado about 10 years ago
Close call here… plutocracy or kleptocracy? I’d say it is a combination of both. Goodbye USA, you had a good run.
retpost about 10 years ago
I still say : just send them a speaker every two weeks insted of a check and it won`t take long to change the way they vote.
braindead Premium Member about 10 years ago
The Supreme Court believes the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson do not have enough influence on legislators and presidential candidates?-Boy, any day now, Fox “news” is going to devote a whole day decrying them Supreme Court activist judges, legislating from the bench.
eddodt about 10 years ago
unless the green energy companies who got billions from Obama want to spend some millions on democrats….then it’s o.k.
eddodt about 10 years ago
then free speech is great!
gammaguy about 10 years ago
First, “money is speech”. And now “freedom of speech” means that there should be no limits on how “loud” one speaks? Doesn’t that suddenly make all those laws against “disturbing the peace” unConstitutional?
Diane Lee Premium Member about 10 years ago
We all need to know who is supporting the candidates. That is who they will be working for. They have no choice if they want to stay in office, you have to do the bidding of the person who is paying your way. Just the same as we all do in our jobs. So, before going to vote, look it up on the internet. Open Secrets is a good site, but there are plenty. If the candidate is getting his money from small donors, he is going to be working for the middle class. If his donations are from corporations or 1%er, don’t figure he is going to go against them and do anything for the middle class. It would be political suicide.