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Obama Turns Up Heat Over Campaign Spending Decision
New York Times ^ | January 23, 2010 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Posted on 01/23/2010 5:45:11 PM PST by reaganaut1

President Obama took aim at the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the justices had “handed a huge victory to the special interests and their lobbyists” with last week’s 5-to-4 decision to lift restrictions on campaign spending by corporations and unions.

The decision will have major political implications for this year’s midterm elections. After it was announced, Mr. Obama immediately instructed his advisers to work with Congress on legislation that would restore some of the limits the court lifted. But in his weekly address on Saturday, he sharply stepped up his criticism of the high court.

“This ruling strikes at our democracy itself,” Mr. Obama said, adding: “I can’t think of anything more devastating to the public interest. The last thing we need to do is hand more influence to the lobbyists in Washington, or more power to the special interests to tip the outcome of elections.”

How much the administration can do about the ruling remains unclear, although Mr. Obama said he had instructed his advisers to work with Congress on a “forceful, bipartisan response.”

That process got under way Friday, a White House official said, when Norm Eisen, Mr. Obama’s special counsel for ethics and government reform, met with two leading Democrats — Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York and Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland — to begin talks on how Congress might proceed.

The sharply divided decision overturned parts of a 2002 law — known as the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, after the two senators who sponsored it — that severely restricted political advertising paid for by corporations and unions in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before general elections.

The five justices who sided with the majority characterized it as a victory for the First Amendment

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The hypocrite was happy to exempt union members from a Cadillac tax, to throw tens of billions of dollars at the automakers, and to support a "stimulus" bill that largely subsidized unionized government workers. The unions being major contributors to Democrats' campaigns had nothing to do with that /s.

Since getting a black eye on Tuesday he's been bashing business and now the courts. This thug is getting more desperate and dangerous.

1 posted on 01/23/2010 5:45:14 PM PST by reaganaut1
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His plan to overturn the US Supreme Court decision will go nowhere. Obama is a demagogue.

"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

2 posted on 01/23/2010 5:47:32 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Funny how to this day Barack Hussein Obama has never been required by the FEC to reveal his illegal foreign campaign donors.


3 posted on 01/23/2010 5:48:25 PM PST by montag813
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What’s he going to do. Stack the court like FDR?

Hm. He should. He thinks the country is furious now over trying to meddle with their healthcare just watch if he tries that.

Memo to Obama..You are not Emperor and certainly are not the “One”.

It does seem clear the child is spooked. If they lose the HOuse, a possibility, there goes much of his power.


4 posted on 01/23/2010 5:48:47 PM PST by Soul Seeker (?)
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5 posted on 01/23/2010 5:49:10 PM PST by MarkAccord
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Stick it in your ear, Obama.


6 posted on 01/23/2010 5:49:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Join the TEA Party Rebellion!! May God and TEA save the Republic!!)
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If Obama really wants to be a credible Populist, it would be smart for him to buy a pickup truck like Scott Brown and then start driving it around the D.C. suburbs.


7 posted on 01/23/2010 5:51:17 PM PST by MarkAccord
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


8 posted on 01/23/2010 5:52:53 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Why buy health insurance at all if you can't be turned down for any pre-existing conditions?)
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Man, he really doesn’t like it when the playing field is level does he?


9 posted on 01/23/2010 5:54:11 PM PST by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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Mr. Obama said, adding: “I can’t think of anything more devastating to the public interest.

President living in a mental box comes to mind.

10 posted on 01/23/2010 5:54:48 PM PST by eyedigress ( now.)
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Good! I hope he throws the full power and influence of his Chicago style political machine at the Supreme Court. Maybe he will piss them off enough that they will actually take a look at his eligibility.


11 posted on 01/23/2010 5:54:53 PM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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12 posted on 01/23/2010 5:55:14 PM PST by 4Liberty ( we have a rat problem .)
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He should show his campaign donations to prove his cred. I doubt $or0$ would like that.

Pray for Freedom


13 posted on 01/23/2010 5:55:49 PM PST by bray (Can you hear the Tea Patriots Now?)
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14 posted on 01/23/2010 5:56:41 PM PST by 4Liberty ( we have a rat problem .)
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15 posted on 01/23/2010 5:57:42 PM PST by 4Liberty ( we have a rat problem .)
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How did the “wise latina” vote?


16 posted on 01/23/2010 5:57:50 PM PST by max americana
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Now is a great time to fight this out, just when he and his comrades are so popular with the American people, who are paying very close attention.


17 posted on 01/23/2010 5:58:25 PM PST by Iowamerican
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I thought ZerO was Carter II but he is turning into Wilson II, with this later version being more dangerous. All hail the thugocracy.


18 posted on 01/23/2010 5:58:44 PM PST by depressed in 06 (Tea parties today, Lexington tomorrow.)
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Non-Constitutional, just as directed.


19 posted on 01/23/2010 6:00:07 PM PST by eyedigress ( now.)
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Changing the subject is not going to work.

Nor is bashing the banks. We see that he undid a year’s worth of 401K gains for those who are suffering in this dreadful economy.


20 posted on 01/23/2010 6:01:29 PM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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