The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling! [View all]

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"We the People" are on the move!

By Jim Hightower - 7/5/2014

So many absurdities abound in our lives that there's a whole body of philosophical thought called "absurdism," as well as an entire catalogue of plays called the "theater of the absurd." And then there's Antonin Scalia.

This sour, scowling, and snarky Supreme Court Justice personifies the dictionary definition of absurd: "Utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false."

A right-wing dogmatist and extreme judicial activist who's full of himself, Scalia has been the court's chief monkey-wrencher for corporate interests, constantly messing with the Constitution to enthrone plutocratic money over our people's democratic politics. By black-robed fiat, he and his four fellow corporatists on the bench have managed to twist language and pervert nature itself by declaring that corporations are "people" and money is "speech." Thus, in their now infamous Citizens United edict of 2010, the five decreed that these huge, lifeless, paper constructs--without brains, hearts, souls, or tongues--must be free to "speak" in our elections by spending unlimited (and undisclosed) amounts of their shareholders' money to determine who wins public office...



A lot more at the link:

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/3696

Money doesn't talk. It swears.

~ Bob Dylan

I hope Democrats get this done. They are already trying to get around Scalia's last shenanigans on women's rights with Hobby Lobby.

Nothing good can be expected from Scalia on women. He said, or at least as quoted on DU, that 'women have no rights under the Constitution.' That may some kind of fine point he was supposed to be making, but with the world wide attacks on women, it's not what an American justice should push.

He also said about the buffer zone case, that women had been getting 'special rights' with buffer zones. Where did we hear that before?

But he's only doing his job:



Despite the noisome demagoguery from the RW, we must rein in corporate personhood. It's not about repealing the First Amendment as Cruz says. It's not about an Article 5 Convention which Paul Ryan and the Koch brothers want to repeal the 14th with its Birthright Citizenship, Equal Treatment under the Law and Due Process clauses.

The right wants that very much and their voters will be out in force in November. Their intentions are clear, they've been telling us women shouldn't have the right to vote, that income taxes and Social Security are unConstitutional, and have swayed the public with their talk as they own virtually all the media and will not allow real dissenting voices.

We're in between a rock and hard place, let's get this done, and give a majority that can make this happen, or Equality will perish.