Posted on 01/23/2010 4:52:47 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, saying he couldn't "think of anything more devastating to the public interest." He also suggested the ruling could jeopardize his domestic agenda.
In its 5-4 decision this week, the high court overturned two decisions and threw out parts of a 63-year-old law that said companies and unions can be prohibited from using their own money to produce and run campaign ads that urge the election or defeat of particular candidates by name.
Portraying himself as aligned with the people and not special interests, Obama said the decision was unacceptable.
"This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy," the president said in his weekly radio and Internet message.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I have seen two articles in the last two days saying that temporary jobs are just as good as permanent ones and that there is going to be a vast expansion in them in the next few months. The press has its talking points.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_xNyrzB0xI
We’ve known for years this clown playing President thinks the Constitution is seriously flawed, why does anyone act surprised? Obama is an anti-American extreme leftist threat to our way of life.
People should start thinking about impeachment. Obama is dangerous and needs to be removed, the politicians won’t do it until they believe we will get rid of them in November 2010 and 2012 and.....
FUBO!!!
1st Amendment a LOT MORE IMPORTANT than YOU are!!!
All the more reason to flip Congress in November to give us a better chance of blocking any Obama appointees should some of the old justices need to be replaced before we replace Barry.
This “Constitutional Scholar” is NEITHER!
Corporation is still a group of Individuals, it also applies to the GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS on your BLOCK!
As for CHAVEZ.. commercials have to be marked as to who is paying for the time... It’s common knowledge that CITGO is CHAVEZ and vice versa.
“couldn’t think of anything more devastating to the public interest.”
How about three more years of this marxist p.o.s. as high poo bah?
Constitutional Law professor, huh?
Chuck U Schumer reportedly said, along with Barney Fwrank, that they will invoke a new ruling for Corporations to not allow them to exercise free speech since the Congress has the power to set rules for Corporations.
I don’t recall hearing them say anything about controlling the free speech of Unions, however.
Thank you for describing some details. I hope that others can cite some specifics as you have done.
Well said.
Shapiro: No one is saying that corporations are human beings. But corporations are groups of private individuals who have legal rights. Take Front Page magazine. It’s not an individual. But the government can’t raid your office and just seize your computer. That would be a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Similarly, corporations have First Amendment rights. Think of it this way: George Soros can spend as much as he wants in an election, but if you and a hundred other people get together to spend your money, suddenly, that can’t work. Individuals don’t lose their rights just because they come together to magnify the effects of their donations
This is more in line what I believe. I wish I would have had more time to debate him.
What he means is that it opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money from "politically incorrect sources".
This made me chuckle -- I just think back to Carville and whats-his-name shouting down the swifties during the 2004 campaign. The powerful interests are the media companies right now -- MSNBC was formed by GE and Microsoft. It's a trust fund baby who's suffering crib death along with Air America.
Ironic that this case was about Hillary: The Movie, which I remember Dick Morris hawking during the primaries. That DVD could have given us Obama because it was released so early -- I suggest that we should not meddle in their primaries.
I am so sick of the lies of the left and can now envision an informed and educated electorate. I disagreed with Morris's timing but the concept was great and scalable -- On Demand films detailing a candidates record -- in their own words. Pelosi and Reid must be having nightmares along with Obama if such a thing came to pass (and it will)
I look at all the rich 'fat cat' senators and now Scott Brown and smile. The left has been breathing it's own exhaust for so long, it believes it can get away with anything. This week was monumental for the conservative cause -- be sure to donate to Free Republic!!
Think about that: His domestic agenda, to be successful, must limit free speech, particularly political free speech. Put differently, the Teleprompter in Chief considers the First Amendment a threat to the hope and change he wants to impose on America. Wake up people.
Doesn’t sound like much of a constitutional scholar.
Corporations are the legal equivalent of individuals. The corporation is nothing more than a container for people and is used for legal protection. So if you sue my business, if it is a corporation then it does not get me personally. But if the business was a partnership, I get screwed personally.
The corporation was invented in order to protect companies from the loss of sailors when they were to go out and explore the new world.
Free speech applies to everyone and every organization. Even corporations. The Constitution says no law shall be infringing on free speech. No law means no law!
And funny, he lifted the ‘open the floodgates’ line from the NY Times analysis of the ruling LOL
You know when corrupt organizations like Unions and ACORN become more powerful than corporations, there’s a problem. Corporations typically have their own governance which prevnents ACORNish behaviors. About time the playing field was leveled.
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