A game changer (Milwaukee WI Journal-Sentinel)

[struggle4progress]

The high court's ruling on corporations and political spending is what quaintly used to be called legislating from the bench.
Posted: Jan. 21, 2010

Welcome to the new corporatocracy, worse than the old corporatocracy.

By easing restrictions on corporate giving to election campaigns on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened floodgates that can further drown politics in special interest money - as if campaigns needed any more such saturation. And it could make elected officials all that more leery of putting voter interests above these other more narrowly focused, big monied interests.

During confirmation hearings Chief Justice John Roberts indicated a reverence for precedent. That was then. On Thursday, Roberts, joining the four other conservative justices in a 5-4 vote, made it clear that this was simply an expedient ...

Free speech? By ensuring vast amounts of spending, this ruling ensures that to be heard above the din, the most effective political speech will be anything but free ...

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/82300287.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. It means the Supreme Court just sold our Government to the Highest Bidder

Welcome the United Ebay of America

[midnight]

2. This is a big game changer... Not the kind I voted for..

[FreakinDJ]

3. That is why they are all RATpubliCON appointed judges

that voted in favor of the ruling