>>>>>>http://nysun.com/news/national/lawyers-say-ad-featuring-pelosi-may-violate-election-law
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>>>>>>Hopefully this will lead to the reversal of the incumbent-friendly anti-speech campaign finance laws. I won't hold my breath.
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>>>>>Thank you for reminding me what money pouring into politics from corporations really is: a free speech issue. I will make a note of this so I remember it from now on.
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>>>>I think the wording needs to be adjusted a little: it's a paid speech issue.
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>>>Since the 1st amendment was removed by McConnell v. FEC, its not even paid speech. It's now regulated speech.
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>>Would that be Mitch McConnell, the GOP's point man on insuring the federal government is bought and paid for by corporations?
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>The federal government has been bought and paid for since the beginning. Why would you expect anything different?
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>A sample of the wit and wisdom of Will Rogers:
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>-The short memory of voters is what keeps our politicians in office
>-We’ve got the best politicians that money can buy
>-A fool and his money are soon elected
>-Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it
>-Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing. That was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
>-Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for
>-When Congress makes a joke it’s a law, and when they make a law, it’s a joke
>-You can’t hardly find a law school in the country that don’t, through some inherent weakness, turn out a senator or congressman from time to time … if their rating is real low, even a president
>-The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other
>-Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches


It's always good to "see" Will Rogers. Another thing we agree on.

Sure, commercial interests have always exerted pressure on government. And I'm not even saying it's necessarily a bad thing. Just that the current batch of Republicans seem to have hung out the "Open for business" shingle with more the usual enthusiasm.

Who knows, maybe the Democrats are just as guilty. It does seem like more of a Republican thing to me (recognizing possible bias).