Galraedia (3,762 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014937796
Citizens United boss: Supreme Court ruling handed midterm elections to Republicans
Source: Raw Story
Its not enough to piss on the DUmpmonkey funeral pyre that was the Mid-terms... We must also date their teenage (but old enough to be legal) daughter and convert her to be a Republican!
NRaleighLiberal (36,221 posts)
1. "we can't run on the merit of our ideas, so had to rig the game" in other words.
muriel_volestrangler (74,037 posts)
20. Since facts have a well-known liberal bias, they needed money to countract reality (nt)
I am trying to figure that one out...
NewJeffCT (38,466 posts)
32. for over 40 years now, Republicans and even independents and liberals have been brainwashed to believe that the media is liberal, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Pull out 10 examples outside of Fox News that show conservative/republican bias, and you'll be countered by one example of questionable liberal bias (i.e., the Dan Rather story about Bush's national guard service) and that makes it all even in the eyes of many.
Are you admitting the Bush story was bullshit?
MTaylor (1 post) <------- troll
62. Why did Brown lose the Governor election in Maryland?
Republican Hogan beat Democrat Lt. Governor Anthony Brown in Maryland by a comfortable margin. Hogan 54%, Brown 45%.
Democrats outnumber Republicans in Maryland by a 2 to 1 margin. Maryland is a very BLUE state.
The Obama's and Clinton's campaigned for Brown.
Maryland has a 30% African American population. Anthony Brown is half African American.
Brown spent about $7 million on the General election and Hogan spent $4.4 million.
How did money buy this election?
jwirr (25,481 posts)
3. Bossie calls this a level playing field? They have all the money and now they own Congress and he thinks that is level?
turbinetree (98 posts)
4. Corruption
What a jerk the first amendment has no mention of the word MONEY to equate speech, what I can't stand is that with all of the funds used to BUY this corruption at the tune of over $3.6 billion dollars in this election cycle we have 5 justices on the Supreme court that has now been able to legislate from the third rail in this government and say Money can talk, it sure can and its called bribery.
This right wing hypocrite injected the words money into the amendment just like his court did, and to think that gerrymandering is good for a democracy, it should be asked did this jerk ever serve his country and does he really know anyone that was killed to defend this right in war or does this hypocrite like to make up his own constitution so that he can hide his money to by a government
Um... did you stroke out there? Were you going to finish that run on sentence?
turbinetree (98 posts)
36. WE can Win
This Sunday, we, if we decide to watch "all" the right wing shows: ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, FIX NOISE, and CBS, which I will not, because if you listen really hard you will hear the word mandate, mandate, mandate. Instead these so called news organization should be reporting on who bought these guys and gals with there funds and then link them to the legislation they are going to push to get enacted.
George Will and his right wing pundits are going to be on the right wing pundit circuit and this right wing hypocrite has already come out and said that the CPFB should be wiped off the face of the map and the first thing the right wing fascists should do is defund the protection of the consumers in this country.
Basically let the country try the 2008 melt down again and go forward so we can do this again, and then when they accomplish this task think public education, National Endowment, NLRB, USDA and the list goes on and on.
Now go one step further this, Bossie, character, and his right wing fascist organization has already made a hit list of what they want and how they are going to get it, this country has now gone through two election cycles with this backed corrupt U.S Supreme court 5 justices with Citizen United, this election is nothing when this picture is already skewed for the elitists and the power and greed in this country.
If there is a death or retirement on the Supreme Court and he decided under the Advise and Consent clause of the Constitution and wants to nominate someone---it is not going to happen, which I suppose is a good thing because we would have a tie.
Tom Butt the newly elected mayor and three newly elected city council members of Richmond, California beat a 3 million dollar Chevron backed campaign to put there crony in office and with only $42,000 in his kitty he won, because of the ground game, that speaks volumes on how we can take this country back and we need to go and start now, we should be buying advertising space on billboards and showing and telling what these right wing hypocrites are doing with a list of there donors, and people will finally get the picture because somewhere along this line they are affected one way or another
When your daughter gets pregnant, after we are married in a catholic church, we are going to keep the baby...
aggiesal (2,219 posts)
9. Before Citizens United, it was illegal ...
for foreign entities to contribute money into US elections.
Now with all the dark money, how much money came for outside the US?
A Mexican donor was found guilty of donating money to San Diego candidates within
the past year, and that's just the San Diego/Tijuana dynamic.
Wasn't there a Saudi citizen starting or donating to a super PAC recently?
What about money from China to keep those US factories closing and shipping
our jobs in their direction?
Or money from India to continue to lobby an increase in H1B visa's to ship underpaid
engineers into our country?
I'm sure there are more I'm not mentioning.
No money from those sources, I'll bet.
Money invested in crooked politicians is currently the best investment in the world.
Nothing else even comes close.
I wonder if there is a hedge fund that does this?
What about all that money that the Chinese gave Clinton?
NewJeffCT (38,466 posts)
35. Why have Democrats not attacked on that issue?
My republican opponent is being funded by __________
fill in the blank with:
A) The same people that fund Al Qaeda
B) Bankers from China
C) Saudi Oil Billionaires
D) Middle Eastern Terrorists
E) All of the Above
And, if they deny they're being funded by any of the above, then you hit them with "well, why don't you reveal who donated all the money do your super pac? my union super pac has a list of all their donors on their website, most of whom are union members donating $50 or $100 each."
You know why.
sammy750 (73 posts) <---- mole13. Yes, the elections have been stolen from the voters. All the winners are now in the hands of the GOP and big funds. Democracy was lost, thanks to the Supreme Court. Our elections are now the biggest fraud, even more then Russia, China, and other countries.
Botany (38,367 posts)
14. one more by product of Florida 2000 & bush v Gore
Because now we have justices Roberts and Allito
JudyM (2,417 posts)
46. Yes, that was a turning point in a number of hugely important matters. I met a friend of Scalia Tues
She was my repuke counterpart handing out sample ballots here at one of our No. VA polling places. She was pretty much a single-issue republican, all about anti-abortion, and was actually somewhat reasonable in her positions on other matters so we were having some civil conversation.
I mentioned the Supremes' disregard of conflict of interest principles thinking it might be common ground and she sheepishly admitted that Scalia is a family friend. She said he's a normal, nice person. I said sure if you can get past his hateful and unethically-exercised bias. Told her she'd be doing the country a favor if she mentions to him that his failure to recuse himself from cases with parties with whom he has outside social contact is viewed as a stunning breach of ethics to all but those who benefit from it; that he took an oath of impartiality which he is glaringly failing to live up to, and so his turning his back on that most basic ethical principle gives strict constructionists a bad name.
She was nodding so at least she understood, maybe she'll actually say something. He is such a loathesome excuse for a judge or lawyer. end of rant.
Oh. bullshit. First off she's a friend you call a repuke to. Second she knows a SCJ. Third she listened to your rant and still is your friend?
B.U.L.L.Shit.
Botany (38,367 posts)
53. w/o bush v Gore we would never have had
9-11
War in Afghanistan
War in Iraq
Hurricane Katrina's misery .... they took money and troops from Louisiana for the Iraq war and that
money was for levies and pumps around New Orleans along w/other things
The gulf oil spill ... thanx Dick Cheney ... no emergency cut off valves for deep water rigs
the economy crashing
torture
Ohio 2004
Dick Cheney shooting somebody after drinking and getting away with it
The Dept. of Homeland Security
Citizens United
domestic spying
a massive kill of wild run Pacific salmon
w joking about WMDS
a surplus turned into a deficit
a media that let w tell a lie about his "cattle ranch" and farming background
Jack Abramoff
Enron
California w/Gov Arnold
Tax cuts for the rich
unfunded Medicaid part D for Rx
Coal Mine blowing up in W. Va. ..... Big Branch Mine .... w put the head of a Coal company
in charge of mine safety
I have to stop this because this list could go on and on
Botany (38,367 posts)
66. and w/out a doubt the Rove/bush/Cheney/ALEC/and so on left major players ....
.... in our government, media (NPR is a ****ing joke anymore), judicial system, and
election/voting mechanisms ..... the more I look at it the low turn out was brutal but
I think the vote its self was dirty too.
"I hope one day the 99% will rise." I don't know about that because in Ohio when he
was working for Lehman Brothers John Kasich sold the state's retirement funs $480
worth of bad paper and he was still elected governor 2 times .... BTW he will be the
GOPs 2016 nominee. He is slick but he is really evil too.
Still Bush's fault.
librechik (26,310 posts)
23. because true victory is when a powerful few rule over the many with impunity.
this is the Republican Party Today.
onethatcares (7,669 posts)
24. I didn't see
one corporation standing in line or in a voting booth but you can bet your ass I saw enough money on the airwaves to crush the
regular citizen.
This country is lost to the oligarchy
librechik (26,310 posts)
60. Remember, SCOTUS decided for Bush in Bush v Gore because a recount "would have harmed Bush,"
Think about that. This is the way Republicans think. If they win it's right. If they lose, it's war. How DARE anyone else try to rule!
