Posted on 05/19/2014 3:18:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
Not if you understand how political theater can influence voting in a close election year. It has no chance of passing but the media will pounce on the Koch brothers in typical demagogic fashion. There will never be any mention that the Koch's have donated about $30 million to conservative causes while Tom Steyer just promised $100 million to Democrats. That's in addition to the multiple millions George Soros, Hollywood moguls, Silicon Valley billionaires, Bill Gates and other rich Leftist elitists have pumped into Democrat campaigns.
The Democrats want to amend the Constitution not so much to stop the Koch brothers as to stop the average American citizen.
Amend the constitution? Bring it on, Harry. You have to get the states (3/4 of them) to agree with it. Don’t you know ANYTHING, Harry?
“No one should be able to pump unlimited funds into a political campaign.”
That include your union buddies, Harry? What a POS.
Reid urged his fellow lawmakers to support a proposed constitutional amendment, written by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall and co-sponsored by 40 of the Senate's 55 Democrats, that would give Congress the right to regulate all political contributions and all spending of any kind in all federal elections. (It would also give states the power to do the same in state elections.) The Supreme Court has held such far-reaching restrictions to be unconstitutional, which is why Reid wants to take the extreme step of changing the nation's founding document.No one who supports this proposal is anything but an enemy of the people and Constitution of the United States.
We need a nutjob in the GOP to start screaming about the Soros boogey man at every opportunity.
Anyone who thinks the democrats are above an amendment
outlawing other political parties, hasn’t been paying
attention to what the democrats are saying.
Another glaring example of liberal projection. It is not the Koch brothers who are pouring unlimited funds into political campaigns; that is George Soros, who is the liberal sugar daddy.
Don’t know what they are worried about. The Koch brothers don’t seem to be making much headway.
That include your union buddies, Harry?“No one should be able to pump unlimited funds into a political campaign.”
The fallacy in all of “Campaign Finance Reform” regulation is that it presupposes that the government can distinguish clearly between objective fact and political opinion. The First Amendment does not make that distinction; the First Amendment applies to your speech whether you are reading the telephone book, reading the Nicene Creed, or declaiming your allegiance to a political candidate. Or anything in between.The trouble with journalism, a.k.a. “the media,” is that all major journalism outlets are associated. In consequence of which, all major journalism outlets go along and get along with each other, and there is no ideological competition among them. How are they associated? By their membership in the Associated Press (and/or any other wire services). Why is their ideological temperament “liberal?” Because socialism is the conceit that critics are superior to performers - and journalists do nothing but criticize. Their preference for reporting bad news makes that inevitable.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
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