[jonKranked]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/21/campaign.finance.ruling/index.html?hpt=T2

Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has given big business, unions and nonprofits more power to spend freely in federal elections, a major turnaround that threatens a century of government efforts to regulate the power of corporations to bankroll American politics.
A 5-4 conservative majority crafted a narrow overhaul of federal campaign spending Thursday that could have an immediate effect on this year's congressional midterm elections. The justices eased long-standing restrictions on "independent spending" by corporations and unions in political campaigns.

will votes mean less now?

 

[jimmydean]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/21/campaign.finance.ruling/index.html?hpt=T2



will votes mean less now?

Did they used to have value? Sheep are sheep. As long as people vote based on what the TV tells them to vote for, we are screwed.

 

[jonKranked]

So what you're saying is destroy television, or I need my own show?

 

[stevew]

Did they used to have value? Sheep are sheep. As long as people vote based on what the TV tells them to vote for, we are screwed.

so ignore obama during the state of the union?

 

[eaterofdog]

What in the christing fvck is the SC thinking? Politics isn't quite corrupt enough?

 

[dante]

So much for Roberts and Alito's claims of holding up established precedent... Gee, that's a surprise.

In this ruling, the justices also nullified earlier rulings upholding the core of a 6-year-old federal law aimed at curbing corporate campaign spending.

Wonder where all the teabaggers are with regards to activist judges overturning the will of the elected representatives?

 

[X3pilot]

Yes, your politicians will now resemble NASCAR drivers as they debate on the Senate or House floor. No longer the Senator from New Jersey or Representative from Nebraska but the Senator from Microsoft or Congressman representing the northeast market of Phizer.

Your vote or will has never meant anything to them once they get elected.

As for the SC ruling. This broad interpretation of First Amendment rights belonging to a group (corp or union) is crap. Now, what's to stop the legislation by business market or worse yet, finish erasing that faint line between church and state and let the Six Flags over Jesus churches stake their claim.

This ruling is fvcked either way you look at it.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Yes, your politicians will now resemble NASCAR drivers as they debate on the Senate or House floor. No longer the Senator from New Jersey or Representative from Nebraska but the Senator from Microsoft or Congressman representing the northeast market of Phizer.

Freedom®, brought to you by Carls Jr.™ .

 

[jonKranked]

will one of the mods please amend the thread title with the following: " Brought to you by Carl's Jr™" pretty please?

when i read the original news, i threw up in my mouth a little bit. our forefathers are spinning in their graves

 

[Silver]

So much for Roberts and Alito's claims of holding up established precedent... Gee, that's a surprise.

You mean Roberts lied during his hearings? Shocked I am...

This seems to be something that everyone here agrees is a horrible ruling. How often does that happen?

 

[JohnE]

It really is a shame we cant vothe the SC out of their robes...bunch of rich (might as well all be) white mf-ers...

 

[sanjuro]

Eight years of hard luck, Bush comin' down on me
From the Florida border, yes, up to Nashville Tennessee
I showed up to every protest you can name, yessuh, every demonstration
Along come Justice John Roberts, sayin' he is going to represent me

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Ohhh ... nine billion dollars, that's all we could give
But we smiled at Justice John Roberts with a big ol' Southern grin
They're gonna take me out to Supreme Court, gonna make me a f'in whore
Just pay me all my money and maybe you won't get representation

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Ohhh ... corporations pay out dirty money, since I was seventeen
If it ain't no pencil pusher, then it got to be a Federal Judge
But I'll sign my contract, baby, and I want you people to know
Every penny that I make, I want to see where my money goes

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