Thu 21 Jan, 2010
Corporate cum guzzlers.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.
By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads.
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“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.
Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.”
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens’ dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom.
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The case began when a conservative group, Citizens United, made a 90-minute movie that was very critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton as she sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Citizens United wanted to air ads for the anti-Clinton movie and distribute it through video-on-demand services on local cable systems during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.
So a conservative court ruled in favor of a conservative group that wanted to use corporate money to make a movie about a person conservatives hate more than gay Muslim terrorists, and in doing so have granted corporations the ability to use their deep pockets to help elect/reelect candidates who will use his/her power(s) to pass laws that benefit the corporations that helped him/her get into office?
George Orwell couldn’t have made this shit up while eating a marijuana and acid sour cream pound cake.
13 Responses to “It’s official.
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Tags: Corporate Rape, Is there anything old rich white guys haven't fucked up, Supreme CourtComments (13)
Laci the Dog says:
After DC v Heller, this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
I like to point out that the “pro-gun” position was funded by the Cato Institute, which is funded by large corporations:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute
The US government is the best money can buy!
Check out
http://www.dcweasels.com/
nahummer says:
Fuck Phuck, I have to admit that even though I often disparage your country I have always held out hope that you’d turn it around eventually. This is truly it. Goodbye democracy, it was great knowing you.
Phuck Politics says:
@Laci the Dog – Goddamn, I do love the Cato Institute.
@nahummer – It was always known that corporations ran the country. This just makes it official.
rory says:
Sweet fucking jeezus.Next it will be mandatory for some elected shithead to wear a badge proclaiming “My job is sponsored by the gun lobby” etc etc.
Phuck Politics says:
@rory – I think that’s a sweet fucking idea.
OHHH says:
Damn, I guess Unions throwing gazillions at Democrats has some competition now…
Sad for Liberals, Great for America.
BTW, Gallup (yes your beloved ‘liberal’ pollsters) showed 72% of America thinks Browns election reflects how the Majority of Americans feel.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125327/Majority-Favors-Suspending-Work-Healthcare-Bill.aspx
Also, I find it hilarious that the majority of responders to your blog are NOT from America. Like their opinions even matter.
I got a new idea for people like Laci, nahummer, etc. Everytime they post something negative about us, I’ll post their countries statistics like median income, taxes, # unemployed, etc and pick apart their news like no ones business.
Cause if you foreign finger pointers think it’s fun to poke at our great country on our useless liberal forums, just wait till I poke at the mess you live in…
Phuck Politics says:
@OHHH – Damn, I guess Unions throwing gazillions at Democrats has some competition now…
I think you’re confusing unions with Goldman Sachs.
OHHH says:
Not Just…
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
Blanca DeBree says:
This is good news! Blanca intends to declare herself a corporation (something very easy if you live in Delaware, where corporations outnumber people 2 to 1). I can then make as many contributions in whatever amount I want.
And for all of you upset with the whole “one man one woman” spiel, since a corporation is a person, I guess two guys or two gals can just call themselves conglomerates and get hitched, just as long as one is a female and the other a male company.
Phuck Politics says:
@Blanca DeBree – What are you going to name your corporation? And may I be VP?
OHHH says:
See I’m the opposite. I personally would never give a dime to any candidate – I can’t think of a more wasteful ‘purchase’. I’m more effective with my money and voice than any government agency is, and if I want some dude elected I’ll assist in my own way.
Phuck Politics says:
@OHHH – Well aren’t you amazing.
OHHH says:
Since making sense eludes liberals, I’ll have to settle for amazing.