Fox News, SCOTUS & Amendments (Congress, global warming, regime, suspect)
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I have been wondering why Tea Party members and right wingers who have criticized the Prez.for the continued Wall Street bailouts and favoring Wall Street over Main Street have been mostly silent or congratulatory on the SCOTUS ruling last week.
I remember Fox News talking about American patriotism, American sovereignity and independence, going at it alone and not needing the rest of the world and being unAmerican and traitors. Yet even one Justice said foreign corporations have the same rights as American corps.
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So maybe the reason Fox News has not made any noise about this is because they also are underunAmerican influence?
"The Washington Times, Fox News, and other corporations with significant foreign ownership (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100117/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_saudi_alwaleed_news_corp - broken link) already work full-time to turn American public opinion against our own government. "Free trade" advocacy groups with funding from outside our borders work to get us to open our markets to imports that close our factories, outsource our jobs, lower our standard of living and drive us into ever-increasing debt. We have seen this with "grassroots" lobbying on important issues like climate change, trying to make people think that the science is a "hoax": see Grassroots' Opposition to Clean Energy Reform Bankrolled by Foreign Oil, Petro-Governments (http://climateprogress.org/2010/01/13/%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-opposition-to-clean-energy-reform-bankrolled-by-foreign-oil-petro-governments/ - broken link)."
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And despite the rhetoric over the threat of Islamic fundamentalists and Sharia, Fox News has direct links to the Islamic world.
Perhaps the debate over the validity of global warming has a lot to do with a collusion between multinational fossil fuel companies protecting their industry's profits?
The 14th Amendment helped ensure voters have a voice in governance and I feel an Amendment making publicly financed campaigns available (but not necessarily mandatory) at all levels of government would even more help ensure the public interest is being served and public servants can devote the time they would otherwise spend campaigning on governing.
I expected something from HuffPo and sure enough we got it. Actually I wonder how much of your first post was from that site.
I voted yes but I meant that only that kind of money can be spent. No outside money at all. REmember the man who said he would take public money in 2008 and then realized that he was going to get so much more through his internet donations about half of which he never told us where they came from.
I want government money, only. That way unions and corporations can't buy candidates so easily and we won't have to worry about who spent the most money. Of course, when reporting time comes at the end of the election the newly elected President will be in charge of the FEC that takes all the reports.
I expected something from HuffPo and sure enough we got it. Actually I wonder how much of your first post was from that site.
Yes, its pretty much common knowledge that HuffPo can never be as fair, balanced and nonpartisan as other media outlets.
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Originally Posted by roysoldboy
REmember the man who said he would take public money in 2008 and then realized that he was going to get so much more through his internet donations about half of which he never told us where they came from.
I voted yes but I meant that only that kind of money can be spent. No outside money at all. I want government money, only. That way unions and corporations can't buy candidates so easily and we won't have to worry about who spent the most money. Of course, when reporting time comes at the end of the election the newly elected President will be in charge of the FEC that takes all the reports.
Then we agree on that point. Virtual handshake. Let me know what you think of this.
This is why we need an amendment for publicly financed campaigns.
"Members of Congress always say they hate having to spend so much time raising money, but nobody questions the accepted wisdom that it's impossible to win without a huge campaign war chest."
Its too bad that the congress didn't see the need for Eleventh Amendment to the constitution as proposed by Jefferson/Madison. May be the trickle down to the politicians era had already begun, influencing the final vote on it.
Government financed campaigns, sounds very Socialist to me. I'm all for it
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