GOP Controlled Supreme Court Puts Up The U.S. Gov. For Sale; Tea-Party Hypocrites: Where are The Real Populists Now?

Posted on 22 January 2010

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Tea-party activists claim to represent Main Street, not Wall Street. So will they let corporate money rule America? Note: This is an EVIL scheme devised by the Republican machinery to ensure that the GOP has ample resources with which to fight in upcoming elections. Remember, in 2008 Obama and Democrats walloped the GOP thoroughly well — through small donations by individual citizens!

The notion of right-wing “populism” is suddenly fashionable following last Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts, when even stiff millionaire suit Mitt Romney could be heard braying about the “royalists” who rule Washington. But all such fakery was exposed yesterday by an event of far greater moment. The Supreme Court’s narrow, poorly argued and highly political decision in the Citizens United case — which removes century-old restrictions on corporate influence-buying — is the culmination of a Republican dream. From this moment forward, what the original American populists once called “the money power” will be enabled to overwhelm all other forces in American democracy using sheer wealth — and that includes every “tea party” activist with a dissenting opinion about bank bailouts, executive abuses or crooked contracting. [ READ MORE ]

Olbermann: U.S. government for sale: In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann envisions a future United States in which today’s Supreme Court ruling permitting unbridled corporate campaign spending purchase all the power greed can afford.

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[...] five Republican stooges in the U.S. Supreme Court recently ensured that American democracy is for sale to the highest bidding corporations, by taking away all restrictions on corporate ability to buy [...]