McConnell: Citizens United 'Leveled the Field' for Campaign Finance

[ej510]

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Fuck this asshole! Level the playing field for corporate America. More people have a voice.

:argh: :grr: :mad: :puke:

[Botany]

1. so it is o.k. for red china to spend billions of dollars ....

.... funneled through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to back republicans who back corporations that
close U.S. based factories and send the jobs to China where people will work long hours at low pay and then
send those products back to America to be sold at Walmart where the former factory worker gets 39.5 hours
per week @ 9.75 per hour?

Fuck you Mitch.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. That's what I'd like to see happen. How about we organize it?

1. Set up a public company designed to lobby govt.
2. Sell all the shares to Hugo Chavez. Chavez then dumps truckloads of oil money into it, which is funneled into lobby PACs on Capitol Hill. (It has to be laundered through a couple of Abrahmoff-style shell companies to make this work.)
3. Then when the congressmen bite, and allow the lobbyists from that company to write a piece of legislation, and pass it, reveal that Hugo Chavez and maybe some Russian gangsters for good measure are the shareholders of that company.
4. Then challenge the legality of corporate funding of election campaigns where shareholders are not Americans in the Supreme Court.
5. (Then just watch the conservative gang of five vote that it's perfectly legal for Hugo Chavez and the Russian mafia to bankroll American election campaigns and influence legislation.)

[sulphurdunn]

2. Now you see

why this clown is the senate minority leader. I love the way he seamlessly wove corporate personhood into the First Amendment. Who would have know that some corporations didn't have the same opportunity to buy politicians as other corporations? :rofl:

[Stuart G]

4. Gee..poor corporations, can't do what they want....or say..

Mitch sure knows what is important, doesn't he :sarcasm:

[Dj13Francis]

3. God I hate this guy!

What an absolute fucking tool.

[Stuart G]

5. So do I

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. RAZED, not leveled, Mr. mcgoo.

[ej510]

7. K&R this needs to be heard.

:kick:

[AlbertCat]

8. Complete nonsense

He talks about a good day for the American people and then removes them from the equation by talking only about corporations competing for a voice. Mitch... bonehead... CORPORATIONS DON"T VOTE. Who cares about their voice when it comes to elections? They shouldn't have one.

And since even different corporations have different amounts of money, not to mention people vs corporations, how is money able to "level the playing field?." "If you don't own a newspaper...." WTF is he talking about? What a red herring.

The only way to level the playing field is to eliminate the money.

And as for your comment about this "over reaching government that is trying to run our lives", how about staying out of women's uteri? OK?

Regulating corporations is not running PEOPLE'S lives! Making their medical decisions is.

This guy clearly has taken individuals out of his view of government. He thinks it's for corporations. That's the definition of Fascism.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. I know the rich and incorporated provide the cash for his campaigns

But who VOTES for this worthless piece of shit?

[ej510]

10. This guy.