US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

I can't wait who get's the naming rights for the Republic first.

Walmart's United States of America!

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DFW OTM

Of course, if they're smart they'll action off everything:

Smith and Wesson's United States Army

Proctor & Gamble's U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Could be fun, no?

The Roche Center for Disease Control

The Goldman Sachs Department of Treasury has a nice ring to it

I worry that the former Klansman from West Virginia has taken up a lot of the good real estate in his home state. Maybe he can sell his interest.

The Johnson & Johnson Department of Health and Human Services

srsly guys, Jennifer Government is coming true

but see prior to this ruling there were limits on how much money they could give to their chosen front group, and limits on how/when/on what that money could be spent. those limits are now gone.

yes and no. 527 contributions were still unlimited, weren't they? they have more restrictions -- have to be about "issues," can't coordinate their campaigns with the candidates, etc -- but those were already pretty fictitious. i'm not saying this ruling isn't terrible, both as law and in its practical effects, it definitely is. it means every election from here on out will probably set new spending records. but it's also true that we've already kind of been on that path.

Maybe it will take something like obscene amounts of corporate ad spending to finally wake this country up to public financing of elections.

Water rolling downhill, etc.

There are various dodges that go way beyond funding advertising. The junkets still exist in one form or another, and those are actually far more nefarious.

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yeah, just like it took spending twice as much as most countries on health care to wake us up to the need for a single-payer system...

anyway, the only real solace i can see is that a lot of corporations are run by idiots. they're as likely to blow themselves up as rule the world.

the taxpayers will always be there to bail them out.

well yeah. obviously. and then we get back a tiny bit of it on our 401k's. until the market collapses again.

yeah we're basically screwed, is i think the deal here. probably more productive to argue about animal collective.

some lines should not be crossed imo

can we sue an animal collective?

i'm in

it can be a class action

AC is the one thing that's more tiresome than cable pundits

Ahem.

50 years from now history will look back on this as the founding moment of the AntiAC party

also the idea of corporations as slaves is kind of fascinating!

AnitAC isn't as catchy as Teabagger

The Supreme Court justices have proven to be superb novelists in the last hundred years.

AnimalBagger

also the idea of corporations as slaves is kind of fascinating!

yeah that turned my head a little

"It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own." -Senate Democratic memo.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/dem-talking-points-were-screwed.php

I mean, reading Kennedy's stirring language you'd think he was Holmes or Black defending the sacredness of free speech until you study it and think, "Uh, what?!"

so much headdesk

Wonder if Nader is having a moment of consideration about helping give us Alito and Roberts.

Probably not, but...

piss off x 1,000,000,000

parrots like you have made the donkeys what they are.

morbs that is a pretty ambitious piss off plan, do u think we can compromise and bring it down to 100,000 with an individual mandate 2 pick up the slack?

morbs you've certainly relished the last couple of days, needling all of us benighted saps, nobody's told you to piss off.

I didn't repeat some pathetic shart of an Al fucking Gore excuse.

but he's right. Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader Nader

and remember, JFK didn't deserve to get his head blown off.

maybe if naderites were a little ruder back in 2000, things would be different. something to consider anyway.

way to go, Matt; you broke Dr Morbius

Matt is already living in Idiocracy

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content07/malfunctioning-eddie.jpg

if i remember my salad days in 2000, one of the intra-left arguments against nader was "the supreme court matters." it's all so funny now, to think back.

morbs is right tho, that in a very close election (or very close anything!) every single little problem looks decisive. was it nader's fault? absolutely. but it was also al gore's. and bill clinton's. and karl rovess. and the supreme court's.

this seems zeitgeisty:

Air America Filing For Bankruptcy, Ceasing Live Broadcasts

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/air-america-filing-for-bankruptcy-ceasing-live-broadcasts.php?ref=fpbrk

"It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own." -Senate Democratic memo.

wtf.

also the idea of corporations as slaves is kind of fascinating!

yeah that turned my head a little

This is an important fact that needs to be remembered, that the amendment that 'freed the slaves' had in the late 19th century been used by corporations to defend their actions FAR more than by ex-slaves to defend their rights as free citizens. I wish I would find this book I have with the exact figure but it's something like 99% of all cases it was a corporation citing the 14th.

really bummed that some people are losing their jobs @ air america. but i don't think too many people listened to the actual radio part of it? i tried, when it started out, and then went back to NPR (nice polite republicans, i know)

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"math is hard. let's go shopping!"

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