the other senator from Massachusetts
boston.com…
WASHINGTON — As anger at last month’s Supreme Court decision that gutted decades of campaign finance laws continues to build on Capitol Hill, Senator John Kerry joined calls for Congress and the states to amend the Constitution for only the 28th time in its history, a dramatic step he said was necessary to restore restrictions on corporate influence in politics that were struck down in the ruling.
“We need a constitutional amendment to make it clear once and for all that corporations do not have the same free speech rights as individuals,” Kerry testified at a Senate hearing today.
Indeed.
Incorporated bodies like the New York Times and the United Auto Workers should definitely not be able to influence national politics by spending –
wait -
what’s that you say?
Oh, alright, never mind.
But, seriously, whenever anyone argues that we need to ammend the constitution to shrink the free speech rights that we have, I’m pretty much immediately off the bus.
2 Responses to “the other senator from Massachusetts”
1. GoodEgg Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 am
He has no intention of doing anything about an Amendment.
This is just an attempt to gin up an issue that he and other Democrats can use to get a lot of donations and a free labor force from the more gullible among their supporters.
Obama and the Democrats are floundering because they have no one to run against. Its kind of hard to make the case that Glen Beck and Sarah Palin are a Great Imminent Threat That Must Be Responded To, when neither hold any public office.
Can’t run against Bush or Ashcroft, or any of the other ginned up devils, anymore. They cant even darkly whisper of conspiracy theories anymore- because all Rosy O’Donnell has to do is pick up the phone and ask Obama about the Only Steel Building That Ever Collapsed in the History of the World.
2. TimP Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Yeah, I’ve always wondered about the hate on for Corporations people have. One person is fine, two or three is generally OK as well, but once you’ve got a couple of hundred of these people cooperating they spontanseously turn evil. (Unless they’re a union or a politically correct “activist group”)
Also you get some amusing comment spam. :-)
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