Where are the no ledgislation from the bench crowd

[BeenThinkin]

Originally Posted by Light

I thought I smell grass burning

You must have lighted up something lol.....
In fact, following your post about politics, you're not chain smoking are you? Gotcha!!!

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Light

Today the 5 right wing Judges reversed a law that has been in effect for 102 years. Corporations are now allowed to use corporate funds in unlimited amounts of money for political adds.
I thought right wingers were against judges legislating from the bench. The right wing radio nuts are hailing this as good law. Oh my how the right flip flop.

Take the time to read the syllabus at the beginning of the SC decision before you go off half cocked. When I was at the ACLJ this is exactly the bill that we were dealing with and portions of it keep getting overturned for one reason, it is bad law.

On another note when did Justice Kennedy become a conservative?

[BeenThinkin]

Originally Posted by Light

I thought I smell grass burning

Light, Light, oh Light, where art thou. Things must have gotten too hot for you and that was what you were smelling. Or...... Maybe, just maybe, what you were smelling was grass, as you said, as you were burning your wheels in your fast departure, trying to get away.

I feel sorry for you. It's tough being on a losing side. Even James Carville, one of the biggest democratic mouths, is putting down the president for the mess he's got the Democratic Party in.

All of your AFF friends I am sure are praying a prayer for you tonight. The State of The Union message tomorrow night I'm sure will probably be more of the same. Lies, lies and more lies. Please don't watch it!!!

Wouldn't it be interesting to make a list of things Pres. Obama promised, said he would do and not do, during the election and compare it to another list of the promises he kept.

Good night Light. You'll be okay after the 2010 elections are over and you start to recover. We'll be there for you.

Now don't get mad at me. I was just kidding........nah, nah, nah.

Been Thinkin (About light!)

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Light, Light, oh Light, where art thou. Things must have gotten too hot for you and that was what you were smelling. Or...... Maybe, just maybe, what you were smelling was grass, as you said, as you were burning your wheels in your fast departure, trying to get away.

I feel sorry for you. It's tough being on a losing side. Even James Carville, one of the biggest democratic mouths, is putting down the president for the mess he's got the Democratic Party in.

All of your AFF friends I am sure are praying a prayer for you tonight. The State of The Union message tomorrow night I'm sure will probably be more of the same. Lies, lies and more lies. Please don't watch it!!!

Wouldn't it be interesting to make a list of things Pres. Obama promised, said he would do and not do, during the election and compare it to another list of the promises he kept.

Good night Light. You'll be okay after the 2010 elections are over and you start to recover. We'll be there for you.

Now don't get mad at me. I was just kidding........nah, nah, nah.

Been Thinkin (About light!)

'Light' will never be happy as long as there is one rich person, defined as someone making a nickle more an hour then him, paying the same % of income taxes (and not more -which they should!). The love of money is truly the root of ALL evil.

May he somehow get a good nights sleep one of these days with all that bitterness and envy rolling inside toward those who have more material possessions then him.

[Aquila]

Wait until corporations swing liberal in their social agenda....

I do believe that America will slowly evolve into a Corporatocracy.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Wait until corporations swing liberal in their social agenda....

I do believe that America will slowly evolve into a Corporatocracy.

It's already become that. SCOTUS didn't need to overturn anything for corp's to have influence on elections ... they already do. Corp's influence both elections and bills through lobbyists and PACs.

[Light]

Originally Posted by n david

Light ... news flash ... the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act is NOT 102 years old.

I know McCain looks old ... but seriously. It's from 2002, not 1908.

This is a good thing. The CFR was a hit against free speech. Also, get the facts straight ... they didn't legislate from the bench.



This was done because a non-profit group wasn't allowed to show "Hillary: the Movie," and sued the CFR.

Again, this wasn't legislating from the bench, it was overturning an unconstitutional part of the CFR.

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito didn't like what he was hearing from President Barack Obama.

The president had taken the unusual step of scolding the high court in his State of the Union address Wednesday. "With all due deference to the separation of powers," he said, the court last week "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests _ including foreign corporations _ to spend without limit in our elections."


Alito made a dismissive face, shook his head repeatedly and appeared to mouth the words "not true" or possibly "simply not true."

A reliable conservative appointed to the court by Republican President George W. Bush, Alito was in the majority in the 5-4 ruling.

Senate Democratic leaders sitting immediately behind Alito and other members of the high court rose and clapped loudly in their direction, with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leaning slightly forward with the most enthusiastic applause.

The court did upend a 100-year trend that had imposed greater limitations on corporate political activity. Specifically, the court, in a 5-4 decision, said corporations and unions could spend freely from their treasuries to run political ads for or against specific candidates.

In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said the court's majority "would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans."

Obama said corporations can "spend without limit in our elections." However, corporations and unions are still prohibited from contributing directly to politicians.

Alito's head-shaking, though only two rows directly in front of Obama, wasn't the "You lie!" moment that brought the president's last speech to Congress to a screeching halt. In fact, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., who shouted it, was stonefaced throughout Obama's latest speech, even rising a few times to applaud.

Even though the number of years was a typo in my first post it seems this morning I was closer to the truth than those those that made fun.

[DividedThigh]

good decision by the scotus, obama is a cry baby, didnt go his way this time, huh

[n david]

Even the New York Times - aka the Democratic Party Newsletter - agrees with me on this ...

Mr. Obama’s description of the holding of the case was imprecise. He said the court had “reversed a century of law.”

The law that Congress enacted in the populist days of the early 20th century prohibited direct corporate contributions to political campaigns. That law was not at issue in the Citizens United case, and is still on the books.

The President and other liberals want the public to think that a century old decision was overturned, thereby hoping the public will freak out.

It's a LIE. A damnable, blatant and inexcusable LIE.

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE for anyone who pushes this myth that this new decision reversed a century old decision. It did not happen.

This is about McCain-Feingold.

The President should be ashamed of himself for doing what no President has ever done - publicly, on national television, criticise and condemn the SCOTUS .... and with a lie at that!

Source

[RevDWW]

I wonder who really receives the most campaing dough from corporations and unions? Anyone want to take a guess?