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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we now declare Citizens United a useless, sinful waste of money and get rid of it now?
All the good that money could have done...just pissed away, and pissed people off.
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Can we now declare Citizens United a useless, sinful waste of money and get rid of it now? (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2012
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Easier if we take the house, so it will take a bi-partisan effort I suspect. Since the teabaggers
silvershadow
Nov 2012
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silvershadow
(10,336 posts)1. Easier if we take the house, so it will take a bi-partisan effort I suspect. Since the teabaggers
are going down, maybe?
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)2. Absolutely!
Hundreds of millions of dollars...
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)3. I hope they do something about that. What a waste. What a shameful waste. If they can afford tospend
that kind of money on elections, then what does that say that they can't pay another 5% in TAXES without it affecting JOBS?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)4. I doubt it
Its a pandoras box.
Also, as long as Republicans control the House, they will never allow any bill to pass to outlaw it, because its their party that receives the lions share of large corporate and individual donations that this ruling opened up.
GetTheRightVote
(5,287 posts)5. It would be nice...
but not so easy to over turn,
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)6. Let those jerks piss their money down a rathole.
Let them keep pissing people off, if these are the results we get.