Who’s afraid of political speech?
Leftist distortions in aid of censorship. They will say anything.
"The end of democracy is nigh! So say liberal pundits and progressive advocacy groups. The impetus is the Supreme Court's order for reargument in the Citizens United case. At issue, according to reform advocates like columnist E.J. Dionne, is whether corporations will be permitted to donate to the campaigns of federal candidates. This is false.
Corporate contributions to federal candidates have been prohibited for more than 100 years; union contributions have been outlawed for more than 60 years. These prohibitions are not at issue and never have been. The propensity of reformers to exaggerate betrays the weakness of their position.
The question before the court is whether corporations are permitted to engage in speech that might influence public opinion about a candidate. The type of activity being considered is an "independent expenditure"; a category of spending created in recognition of the fact that people have legitimate reasons to weigh in on political issues, quite apart from making direct contributions to candidates. For example, a homemade protest sign might be a kind of independent expenditure, as might a blog in which you express political opinions.
The courts permit restrictions on direct contributions to candidates; the rationale is that unlimited contributions may lead to the appearance of corruption, if not actual corruption. In contrast, independent expenditures, which are made without the cooperation or consent of any candidate, do not raise these same concerns.
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10 comments:
Seems to me that if Unions are allowed to express their POV than their primary adversary, corporations, should be able to express theirs as well. Am I wrong?
I'm still trying to figure out the difference between, campaign contributions and bribery. Could the only difference be in who writes the laws?
No Nativity in Washington, D.C. this year!
There will be no Nativity Scene in Washington this year!
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States' Capital this Christmas season.
This isn't for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find Three Wise Men in the Nation's Capitol.
A search for a Virgin continues.
There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
331 BCE A relentless overachiever, Alexander the Great, kicks Persian butt at Gaugamela.
1837 Uncle Sam signs a treaty with the Winnebago Indians; much later, tribe achieves immortality after its name is affixed on bloated recreational vehicles.
1867 Messiah Barry starts reprogramming his teleprompter, after his daddy, Karl Marx, inflicts ‘Das Kapital’ on a clueless world.
1910 A gas leak (or a bomb) explodes at the Los Angeles Times, killing 21people; inexplicably, the blast gives fishwrap a left-leaning tilt that can’t be eradicated.
1924 American’s worst president, (so far) Jimmy "Jellyfish" Carter, born.
1949 People’s Republic of China perpetrated by commie scumbag named Mao.
1961 Mother Nature decides to pull Al Gore’s "holy global warming, Batman" chain when she makes an ‘extinct’ volcano in Tristan da Cunha erupt.
1962 Johnny Carson hosts the ‘Tonight Show’ for the very first time.
1964 Dope smoking hippies at University of California Berkeley launch a ‘Free Speech Movement’ which evolves into a "shut up" movement called Political Correctness.
1979 America’s Peanut Brain-In-Chief gives away Uncle Sam’s control over the Panama Canal Zone.
Anon 1:57 says,
"I'm still trying to figure out the difference between, campaign contributions and bribery. Could the only difference be in who writes the laws?"
The former comes before the election. The latter comes after the election.
Thank you sir.
Anon 2:17,
Can I steal that?!?
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
"Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents."
– Ed Lasky
WORD OF THE DAY
AMATEUR HOUR, n.
A narcissistic, teleprompter-addicted, media whore who continues to campaign for a job that he already won, because he hasn’t got the requisite knowhow, or work ethic, to perform it.
Anon 3:47
Bullseye!
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