This is what Citizens United has done:
Federal Election Commission chair Ann Ravel told the New York Times Sunday that she has “largely given up hope of reining in abuses in the 2016 presidential campaign.”
“The likelihood of the laws being enforced is slim,” she said. “I never want to give up, but I’m not under any illusions. People think the F.E.C. is dysfunctional. It’s worse than dysfunctional.”
This obviously reflects the deluge of spending since the Citizens United decision. But per the Times it is also indicative of the partisan split between the FEC board members, who continually deadlock in 3-3 votes. This leaves the commission ineffective against candidates, parties, and PACs that are rapidly adapting to the post Citizens United-landscape, with a greater blurring of the lines between PACs and campaigns, and candidates like Jeb Bush delaying their FEC filing to prolong the period of coordination with limitless Super PACs.
Ravel said the Republican members were blocking enforcement of rules against conservative PACs like Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS. “What’s really going on, is that the Republican commissioners don’t want to enforce the law, except in the most obvious cases,” she said. “The rules aren’t being followed, and that’s destructive to the political process.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fec-chair-has-pretty-much-given-up-enforcing-finance-rules/
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to a fine art....only americans are capable of such hypocrisy and are good at it.
would say RIGHT ON
Can't tell you how many times that fits.