Welcome To The New Gilded Age
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...y.html?hpid=z1

“Today’s court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC is an important first step toward restoring the voice of candidates and party committees and a vindication for all those who support robust, transparent political discourse,” said Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, which brought the case with Shaun McCutcheon, an Alabama businessman.
But advocates for reducing the role of big donors in politics decried the ruling, saying it will further amplify the influence of the wealthy in campaigns. By striking the overall cap on how much individuals can give to federal candidates and parties, the decision opens the door to the creation of super-sized joint fundraising committees that could solicit checks for more than $3 million, they say.
“I was deeply disappointed, but it is what it is,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said shortly after the ruling was announced. “I predict again, there will be major scandals in campaign finance contributions that will cause reform.”
“There will be scandal,” he repeated. “There’s too much money washing around.” Wapo

Strangely, I find myself agreeing with 'Grumpy' McCain. :rolleyes:

Even a blind squirrel...9

Prince Riebus sounds happier that a pig in shyte.

Welcome To The New Gilded Age
 

Sadly not a bad title for an equally bad rock progressive album but reality as we know it:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...#axzz2xkxAgq5j

Beat ya to it but I like your title better, we could merge the two threads? ;)

http://www.politicalchat.org/showthread.php?t=7190

yes sorry about that did not see urs forgive me!

Hey Pete merge!

Well I gone done it.

That'll be $50 :p

Pete

Hey, you trying to undercut my prices? :p

Regards,

D-Ray

The check is the anti-Frontrunner que Pete!;)

LOL! And D, bwuuuuhahahahaha :D

Pete

The checks in the mail and....:D

So the Roberts court just stuck a big for sale sign in the middle of the country.

That's my take on it.

They did that a long time ago. They just raised the price.

We're proper fucked, mates! Time to chuck it in.

John

First the court equates corporations to people so no small wounder they also see equality of voices of the electorate in a donation of $100 and 1,000,000.



Barney

The Supreme Court giveth, the Supreme Court taketh away.

Pete

Fixd it for you nothing about that court is supreme. Actually it probably is the Koch Roberts court since Scalia and Thomas are buddy, buddy with the Brothers Koch.:p

I thought it was the 'Pubbies who abhorred legislating from the bench? (Except when it suits them. :rolleyes:)

If they weren't our lord and masters they couldn't do it.

Pete

"Legislating from the bench" is just more Newspeak from the usual source.

Actually, it was a phrase that became popular to criticize the Warren Court, with it's landmark decisions on discrimination, the Fourth Amendment and other restrictions on law enforcement practices. The irony of course is the Warren was a former Republican Governor of California, and he was nominated by Republican President Eisenhower.

Regards,

D-Ray

Right-o! Pretty much nonsense except as an expression of personal opinion against enforcing the BOR over popular nullification.

Just letting my snark out before I bail to the High Sierra's, my friend. I have a suspicion that WiFi is going to be scarce up there in the Sequoias. :)

The last decent 'pubbie governor from the late great state of Californication.;) Of course, some around here think Guvnor Jerry is a chincy DINO.

Hell John, where's the fun in deleting so many posts? ;)

I was trying to put a picture up... and failing miserably!

It had to do with you being offline and Carrier Pigeons.:o

I'm always online waiting to pounce, buwahahahaaaaa!:cool:

The Vicious Cycle of Concentrated Wealth and Political Power
 

People should be taking to the streets for some serious civil disobedience over this. But instead our Democracy has been sold to the highest bidder and no one seems to even notice.

More

The problem is that we have 9 unelected "lords" sitting on the Supreme Court. They have the power to revise, repeal or make law as they, and they alone, see fit. These powers aren't granted to them in the Constitution. They're ones that they arrogated to themselves in Marbury v. Madison. They are totally unaccountable. They serve for life unless impeached, a thing we have never tried in the entire history of this misbegotten country. Do you really think they would give a shit if we took to the streets? I don't.

John

While true, I still trust the robed cabal more than I do the Executive or Legislative branch.

Maybe if they thought they might end up out in the street themselves, hanging upside down A-La-Mussolini, they would.

That kind of action would require the participation of thousands of people who were all willing to die..... because they would.

John

Collectively, I trust none of them but at least with the other two branches of government at least we have some chance of voting out the worst and electing someone better. With the Judicial Branch, we're stuck with the Scalias and the Robertses and Tbomases until they retire or croak.

John

;)hurray somebody saved my thread after Whelly stole it

oh that was the immigration thread about Obama and his real record...to quote Gilda Radner NEVERMIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDD!

:rolleyes:It does not even take nine of them just the five right wing assholes. Imagine a nation of over 300 million being led around by the nose by five crooks

Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
you in mid air
Send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here.

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that large, populous nations are ungovernable. The problem is that a world consisting of hundreds or thousands of small well-administered countries would need to form alliances, entities like the EU or the UN and these entities seem ineffectual at best and counter-productive at worst.

In other words Lincoln made a big mistake and Polk was a thief. The south would be on its own and Mexico would still have had enough arable land to make it richer.:rolleyes:

And maybe the U.S. would be governable.

Is it too late to give Texas back to Mexico?