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Mitch McConnell Desperately Defends Citizens United In Unhinged Op-Ed
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/09/mitch-mcconnell-desperately-defends-citizens-united-in-unhinged-op-ed/Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is outraged, OUTRAGED, I tell you! He’s so outraged that he wrote a scathing op-ed for Politico on Sunday. Just don’t expect McConnell to actually tell you what he’s outraged about.
In what can only be described as a masterpiece of Orwellian doublespeak, McConnell rants and rages at Harry Reid and the Democrats for threatening free speech and stifling critics but never quite explains what, precisely, their nefarious plan is:
…the Democrats who control the Senate say they’re more interested in repealing the free speech protections the First Amendment guarantees to all Americans. Their goal is to shut down the voices of their critics at a moment when they fear the loss of their fragile Senate majority. And to achieve it, they’re willing to devote roughly half of the remaining legislative days before November to this quixotic anti-speech gambit.
The proposal they want to consider would empower incumbent politicians to write the rules on who gets to speak and who doesn’t. And while no one likes to be criticized, the way for Senate Democrats to avoid it is to make better arguments, or even better, to come up with better ideas — not shut up their constituents.
In what can only be described as a masterpiece of Orwellian doublespeak, McConnell rants and rages at Harry Reid and the Democrats for threatening free speech and stifling critics but never quite explains what, precisely, their nefarious plan is:
…the Democrats who control the Senate say they’re more interested in repealing the free speech protections the First Amendment guarantees to all Americans. Their goal is to shut down the voices of their critics at a moment when they fear the loss of their fragile Senate majority. And to achieve it, they’re willing to devote roughly half of the remaining legislative days before November to this quixotic anti-speech gambit.
The proposal they want to consider would empower incumbent politicians to write the rules on who gets to speak and who doesn’t. And while no one likes to be criticized, the way for Senate Democrats to avoid it is to make better arguments, or even better, to come up with better ideas — not shut up their constituents.
Monkey brains WHARGARBLE!!11!1!!1! Did he catch something from McCain?
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Paging SwampRat....
has melted down completely.
"I want my monkey brains well done!" - J.R." "Bob Dobbs
