Mitch McConnell on the Supreme Court’s Ruling Allowing Unfettered Corporate Political Advertizing.

On Thursday, January 21^st the five conservative jesters on the Supreme Court (the same five who decided that counting votes is irrelevant to elections) ignored the courts usual reluctance to overturn several established precedents and voted to give corporations all of the free speech rights of individuals.

I have written a couple posts noting my reaction to this, but I didn’t have time to highlight the single slimiest response to this ruling. This nauseating stream of verbal diarrhea spewed from the mouth of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

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New Vocabulary Words

Following Thursday (Jan 21, 2010) Supreme Court ruling in Citizens v. Federal Election Commission (the Hillary the Movie, first amendment case)—which by many accounts has opened the floodgates for corporate funds to influence (make that buy) elections—here are a couple of important words you will want to add to your vocabulary (practice them till they roll trippingly of thy tongue):

Corporatism [noun

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The Supreme Court Opens New Civil Rights Front

The activist conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturned two precedents and, clinging to the intent of our founding fathers who loved corporations, affirmed that corporations have the same rights to freedom of speech as individuals. Can corporate marches on Washington demand corporate voting rights be far behind?

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