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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: Jack of All Trades who wrote (68894)1/27/2010 11:45:55 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
With all due respect, that is not what is even going on. This was never an intellectual debate over the law. It was a plan by the elite right wing of corporate America to pack the court to change the laws in favor of business. At all, and any costs.

I would remind you it was Roberts who told the Republican party they could steal the 2,000 election by getting the supreme court to stop counting.

Scalia led that efforst and it was successful. So then they put Roberts in as chief justice. And backed up by Alito, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy they intend to write new law to increasingly empower corporate America.

Go look at their decisions so far and watch what they do. They will do whatever they want and then go find or make up the law they need to defend their actions.

Totally cynical!



>>My understanding one of the reasons the court ruled as they did is that one could not "pool" money together to run for office. The money had to come from "one" source.

So unless you were rich (ie Mayor Bloomberg) citizens could not pool their money to support a candidate.

This left the ability of for the average citizen to run for office locked out against people with more money.

Do I agree that corporations should be allowed to dump as much money as they want? No, but the way the law was written was not favorable either.

JMO
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