Posted on 01/21/2010 7:15:59 AM PST by steve-b
One more blow struck for freedom and against despotism.
Note: The headline on the site has changed to “Justices Reject Campaign Finance Limits”
As Martha Coakley learned not so long ago. Throwing money at the problem doesn’t fix the problem. They will learn this too.
After the government took over the corporations! ;-)
Why is the NYTimes just saying unions can spend at will? Haven’t Republican coffers been more held back by this law?
I hope it doesn’t take 10 years to get Obamacare before the Supreme Court if it passes.
LOL — that pic of McCain looks like it should be the “before” image in a laxative commercial.
John McCain and Russ Feingold are deeply saddened.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
You beat me to that.
This decision couldn't have come at a worse time.
huge swaths of them trillions of tax payer dollars that 0bozo has pumped into AIG, GM, Goldman, Citibank, TARP etc, are going to come round and finance massive campaign buys for the Democrats and 0bozo in 2010 and 2012.
This admin had argued that the law even applies to books and websites!!! Imagine banning a book because of a single sentence that could be called political.
I would have rather seen the union spending reeled in.
Money is fungible and Obama is handing out trillions to corporations and organizations that can now spend hundreds of millions of our taxpayer money on ads supporting him.
But if a majority of the people in this country let themselves be swayed by ads bought with money stolen from them, we probably deserve our fate.
This is HUGE!!!!!!
Twenty year law struck down!!!!
Good let the bailed out corps pour money to Obama and the Dems. 1) Public won’t like perception of bailout $ spent on politics and 2) It sort of goes against Obama and the Dems new “populist” message.
Free speech wins.
"To be sure, the fact that 52 percent of Massachusetts voters are racist, sexist tea-baggers -- i.e., voted for a Republican -- means only that the Democrats just went from having the largest congressional majority in a generation to the second largest. But this was "Teddy Kennedy's seat." And it was in Massachusetts.
Now, no Democrat is safe.
But the country just got a lot safer." ... Ann Coulter
I think the union membership has to do that. Is that not a state-by-state thing where the union is prohibited from using dues to support one party or the other?
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