I am not sure the SC decision really changes that too much.

Money today has the power to steal just about anything, and people are willing to let just about anything be stolen for the right amount of money.

There seems as though there is no solution in sight.

This is why we must pursue an unseen solution, so that it cannot be stolen away with money.

campaign finance reform is a red herring.

only way to make it work is to prosecute the people who are bought.

for that you need real corporate transparency.

end the corporate person.

anything less is nothing more than political football for morons like most here.

You would think some one that old and experienced would have realized that the pants-pissing fear-mongering she promotes only works on her fellow libs. She's preaching to the choir, and is just being an annoying feeb to the rest of us sane people. I bet her home smelled like cats, pee, and mothballs.

Or, as they say in France. L'Aire de Corki.

-annoying feeb

Psychological projections in blog posting is a fascinating study, oui?

Story of the Year - Stereo

We're all born within
This thoughtless world
A generation bought and sold
By a reproduced, stolen, copied package
We've been taught to love this robotic formula
Built to please ignorant minds, uncultured masses
Do we know, that our ears have failed us now?

Stereo, stereo
Tired bullshit dressed in gold
Scan the youth, find the pieces
(Our ears have failed us now)
Stereo, stereo
Hear the world that you've created
Fall to pieces
We're all bought and sold!

Radio waves still transmit the same
Replica that wreaks of staleness and decay
Unless we resist, and open our eyes to this
Uniform and standard model they insist we consume
Our hearts have failed us now

Stereo, stereo
Tired bullshit dressed in gold
Scan the youth, find the pieces
(Our hearts have failed us now)
Stereo, stereo
Hear the world that you've created
Fall to pieces

But do we know
WE'VE ALL BEEN BOUGHT AND SOLD
YEAH, BOUGHT AND SOLD
WE'VE ALL BEEN BOUGHT AND SOLD
YEAH, BOUGHT AND SOLD
We've all been sold to a world that failed us

Stereo, stereo
Tired bullshit dressed in gold
Scan the youth, find the pieces
(Our hearts have failed us now)
Stereo, stereo
Hear the world that you've created
Fall to pieces

Stereo, stereo
Tired bullshit dressed in gold
Scan the youth, find the pieces
Stereo, stereo
Hear the world that you've created
Fall to pieces

We're all bought and sold, we're all bought and sold...

It ain't money. It's power hungry people!!!!

It ain't money. It's power hungry people!!!!

First you get the money.
Then you get the power.
Then you get the weeemen.- Tony Montana

Fair Elections Now Act Bill

The Fair Elections Now Act (S. 752 and H.R. 1826) was introduced in the Senate by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and in the House of Representatives by Reps. John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones, Jr. (R-N.C.). The bill would allow federal candidates to choose to run for office without relying on large contributions, big money bundlers, or donations from lobbyists, and would be freed from the constant fundraising in order to focus on what people in their communities want.

Summary

cor, the person handing out the campaign funds would have the power to say who is running and who isn't. How fair is that? Think thing a little farther than the end of your dick.

-Think thing a little farther than the end of your dick.

Which is where one would find you, I suppose.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2010-03-11 04:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Great, now you have both proved that you have a short scope of perspective.

Maybe you can say something important now.

Radical Fringe in control of the US Supreme Court...

RIGHT ON!

-Maybe you can say something important now.

Fuck off.

What's new? That complaint goes back to the Bible.

Actually, democracy is built as a spoils system.
It starts when voters vote for the highest bigger of stolen goods.
Knowingly or unknowlingly, they're sending crooks to Congress. But they only complain about the corruption of other congressmen.

Of course voters never see themselves as the perpetrators of this collossus, only as its victims.

Of course voters never see themselves as the perpetrators of this collossus, only as its victims.

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work for the corporate beast.

watch its corporate propaganda.

and then wonder why they are bailed out, and you are fucked...

Liberals were a lot more excitable about campaign finance reform when it was Republicans getting elected. Now that is the Democrats on the payroll of General Motors and Goldman Sachs, it's not such an issue anymore.

Granny D is dead?

Well, 101 is a pretty good kick at the cat but is still sad.

"Money is stealing our democracy"?

Strewth.

For an epitaph Spud suggests "She was right"

RIP Granny D.

Be Well.

Good, it wasn't supposed to be a democracy.

Maybe you can say something important now.

#13 | Posted by ExpsRedemption

Maybe you can tell me who would decide who would get the money?

I'm Granny D and I get respect
Your cash and your jewelry is what I expect

...the person handing out the campaign funds would have the power to say who is running and who isn't. How fair is that?

The stupidly from this guy never ceases to amaze me. First of all, you don't get the campaign funds unless you are already running and, secondly, by recognizing the 'corporate person' you just delegated your own vote to a phony person. Lately you are coming off as one of the most ignorant on this site sniper. Is this age related?

Liberals were a lot more excitable about campaign finance reform when it was Republicans getting elected. Now that is the Democrats on the payroll of General Motors and Goldman Sachs, it's not such an issue anymore.

Dude, you are so far out in right field you can't even see the ball anymore. It was a majority of conservative judges that came up with the bastardized ruling in the first place that gave constitutional rights to non citizens and you back them.

What democrats are on the payroll of GM and GS? Name one.

Why just make stuff up? Can't you find any real truth to back your stupid arguments?

"cor, the person handing out the campaign funds would have the power to say who is running and who isn't. How fair is that?"

It appeared that the guidelines were pretty clearly spread out. Honestly, I have always wondered who would get elected if candidates came in on an even playing field, where a Bush had as much financial support as Paul or Kucinich...

But here's the problem. What I truly suspect would happen is that you would have a huge number of socially conservative candidates that were able to meet the requirements, and therefore recieve public funding. I'm not sure how open the left would be to seeing their tax money spent to elect someone whose platform was openly religious. At the same time, I don't think any on the right would want to pay for someone who was openly socialist. And let's imagine for a second that someone like David Duke was able to vet in. And in Louisiana that might just be possible. You can imagine the uproar if federal funds were going to support someone like that. Someone who was openly racist.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but I can only imgagine the trouble it could cause, and I don't know that there is any way around it.