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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Gaslighting Is Covered by the First Amendment"
Gaslighting Is Covered by the First AmendmentBy David Weigel at Slate
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/09/09/gaslighting_is_covered_by_the_first_amendment.html
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It's a sign of just how cynical the Capitol has become that yesterday's big, bipartisan vote on campaign finance reform was probably a ruse. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, and a few other blue-staters have for a few months been pushing for a new constitutional amendment that would revise the First Amendment and thus undo the Roberts court's rationale for Citizens United. To their surprise, the vote to proceed to debate on the amendment won 78 votesmost Republicans voted with the Democrats. Sanders immediately assumed that the Republicans were trolling him in order to make Democrats waste time before the next recess.
"I would love to be proven wrong," he told Politico. "But if the end of this week, we end up getting 67 votes, you can tell me I was too cynical."
Today, as Democrats and Republicans fitfully took the Senate floor, it really did seem like one party was ready with a message and the other was a little bored. The universal signal from Republicans was that the Democratic amendment would REPEAL THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
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There was a considerable amount of gaslighting in the middle of all that messaging. Few things make Democrats more confident that they're reaching their base voters than jabbering about money in politics. Just a few months ago, CBS found that a supermajority of votersmore than 70 percentthought there was too much money in politics, and that recently removed limits on bulk donations should be restored. And the numbers for base voters are even better. According to MoveOn's Ben Wikler, the amendment fight, doomed as it is (two-thirds of the House will not support this), is "better than failing to get cloture again." This week's news cycle had little room for the Merkley amendment, but progressives were stacking all sorts of videos of their candidates taking a stand "against Citizens United" and Republicans defending endless money in politics. There really aren't any losers here.
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"Gaslighting Is Covered by the First Amendment" (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2014
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I fail to see how an amendment undoing Citizens United would repeal the First Amendment. The
Louisiana1976
Sep 2014
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)1. We have a few DUers right here who are cool with CU
And obviously who it benefits.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)2. I fail to see how an amendment undoing Citizens United would repeal the First Amendment. The
Republicans are the biggest gaslighters of them all.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)4. Check out this thread
Complaining that it would lead to censorship of books and films. Basically the Republican talking point that it would repeal the First Amendment.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025511632
Right here on DU, no need to watch Fox.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)3. "There really aren't any losers here"?
Another example of the pundit circle jerk that is the DC press.
I suppose it never occurs to clowns like this that the American public is a huge loser as long as CU is on the books.
They might be surprised to find there is life outside the beltway.