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I thought this was ONE area we could all agree needed to be shored up??
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Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has given big business, unions and nonprofits more power to spend freely in federal elections, a major turnaround that threatens a century of government efforts to regulate the power of corporations to bankroll American politics.
In a 5-4 ruling, the court's conservative majority crafted a narrow overhaul of federal campaign spending Thursday that could have an immediate effect on next year's congressional midterm elections....(more)
I predict that by 2012 there will only be about a dozen lobbyists still working in the US. From now on each large corp can just BUY rather than rent their wh**es. We'll have a "distinguished gentleman" from Chevron, one from Exxon, one from "Big Auto", one from coal producers, one from big pharma, one from the AMA, one from electric utilities.
Oh, wait, we pretty much already have that. Only in the future it will be MUCH WORSE.
Now there's a shock, Conservatives favoring Big Money Influence.
Well now the lefties are admiting the unions are big money!
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