Politico: Why didn’t GOP rescue Democrats from their own foolish constitutional amendment?

Hot Air ^ | 9 Sep 2014 | Noah Rothman

[Rummyfan]

Conservatives are often quick to accuse the press of exhibiting bias in their coverage of American politics. Sometimes, accusations of subtle or even unconscious favoritism in the political press are well-founded. Other times, bias is merely perceived. The movement by Senate Democrats to amend the Constitution in order to restrict the freedom of protected political speech contained within the First Amendment has, however, exposed a rather obvious blind spot in the political media.

On Monday, the Senate passed a procedural vote to allow debate on the Democrats proposed amendment to the Constitution which would reverse a number of Supreme Court decisions that overturned laws aimed at curtailing the public’s ability to spend money on political speech. From 1976’s Buckley v. Valeo, to 2010’s Citizens United v. FEC, to just this past summer in McCutcheon v. FEC, the Court has been engaged in a systematic rolling back of the restrictions imposed on political speech by the Congress for over a generation.

Democrats in Congress know their voters want to put an end to that and, lacking any other realistic agenda to satisfy them, liberal officeholders have embarked on an effort to delude their base into believing that the United States Constitution should and can be reshaped and the First Amendment rewritten.

[Vaduz]

Democrats = Fabian Socialists

[etcb]

But in a rare moment of savvy political jujitsu, McConnell convinced his caucus to let this come to the floor for full discussion and vote, to expose the cynical ploy for exactly what it is.

Thank you for this insightful analysis. All too frequently the knee jerk reaction here is to blame republican leadership for every wrong headed action by democrats. Actually, McConnell often does quite well with what he has to work with.

[Billthedrill]

What we have here is the Mount Everest, the Mona Lisa, of hypocrisy. If the Dems don’t want the thing to chew up “valuable” floor time, then don’t propose it. Period.

[tanknetter]

McConnell, who appears to be on an upswing polling wise, is getting hammered on the big money in politics issue by political groups that rely on big money to survive. Liberal political groups, that is.

So he may be trying to leverage what was supposed to be a “gotcha” Senate procedurel vote against them. Not sure how well, if at all, it’ll play in KY.

[Rummyfan]

First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.

How true. And sad...

[houeto]

You are the only one I have seen so far that wrote exactly what I’ve been thinking. Kudos kevkrom!