SCOTUS Upstages Scott Brown, Hands Governance to Wall Street
Forget Independents, Teabags, Progressives; CEOs Now Run the Show!
That's right! The guys who engineered the bailout of Wall Street banking, now can spend all that bonus money on buying candidates. Starting Tomorrow!
They borrowed the money from you, my fellow Americans. They made huge profits on that money. Sure they paid back the loan, Only now they are going to take the profits and buy any election they please!
You Teabag Conservatives in your delirium over the Scott Brown win: enjoy your day...guess what, the Supreme Court, appointed by Dubya just upstaged your independent candidate, stole his thunder, and cut off those parts of his body that Cosmopolitan couldn't show us.
They don't give a damn about your security either...There was a perfectly competent appointee to head the TSA, Errol Southers, but corporate America got him drummed out because they were afraid of unionism. Well. look out Middle America, because now that Corporations can spend ALL they want on elections, it's going to be CHEAPER for them to kill unions and control appointees!
Do you remember how we used to grill Supreme Court appointees on matters of law? Do you remember how important it was when there was a nomination hearing for a Supreme Court appointee? Well the Bush administration loaded the bench with a bunch of corporate sympathizers who have done an end-around on justice.
The next candidate who wants to represent his blue-collar constituents? Sorry! There's going to be an opponent backed by every buck Corporate America wants to spend!
The next candidate who wants to represent the small-town values she was raised on? Sorry! There's a great big pot of money backing an opponent who will do whatever the corporate bosses want.
You think your health-care (if you have it) is expensive now? Wait until Aetna, United HealthCare and Merck can finance any candidate they want...
OH WHY WAIT? It starts TOMORROW thanks to the latest Supreme Court ruling.
You think gasoline pirces are rising? Remember what you were paying when the Bushies were in Charge? Well imagine what Chevron and BP will get away will when they can contribute UNLIMITED cash!
Yes, if anything could upstage that Tuesday news from Massachusetts its this:
George Bush, now out of office, just handed progressives the greatest opportunity ever!
The Roberts Court, in handing carte-blanche to Corporate America, has exposed the Bush Family plan. In doing so, it has unleashed a furious back-lash of populist anger that will either reclaim America, or die trying
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I've heard some legislators say that they might attempt to enact legislation which would require corporations to obtain shareholder approval prior to campaign spending. Let's face it...shareholders invest in companies to make money. If the corporation convinces its shareholders that the cost of cleaner environmental legislation will be far more expensive than the cost of an add campaign supporting a candidate who supports the cheaper, dirtier environmental route, I'd bet the shareholders will choose more profit over a cleaner environment. Corporations will be able to easily outspend all private citizen donations combined...on any issue, on any candidate. Essentially, they will able to buy whatever government they wish to install. I don't believe the potential seriousness of this decision is evident to most Americans yet. Hopefully, when they are made fully aware of the potential impact, there will be a tidal wave of anger, dissent, and action. If successful, this ruling will make today
If the Supreme Court ruling stands without legislative intervention, we can kiss clean air, clean water, endangered species, cleaner alternative energy independence, our jobs, the impact of an individual's vote, separation of church and state, Social Security, Medicare, social programs, democracy, the Constitution, and America...goodbye. And this list barely scratches the surface. Within the span of one or two election cycles, America's citizens and freedom will be crushed beneath the obscenity of unbridled corporate greed. We will hear the unmistakable sound of the death rattle from the America we once knew.
Great article! Don't forget about the big tobacco companies with the deep pockets. I'm sure they must be chortling right now.