Today's SCOTUS ruling is proof positive we need to rally around Pres. Obama.

[Drunken Irishman]

If we let an assbag douchewhore Republican claim the presidency, there will be more decisions like this in the future. The court is very conservative and it's very conservative because the last president, an assbag douchewhore Republican, replaced two moderate justices.

It's likely we'll see at least two or three changes within the next eight years. If it's a Republican during the latter part of the eight years - WE. ARE. FUCKED.

[quiet.american]

1. "...Business managers now will be able to spend at will Bloomberg-level sums in congressional races"

You're right, DI -- not happy about this -- it means the richest candidate wins.

Campaign finance ruling reflects Supreme Court's growing audacity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012103199.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

The Supreme Court on Thursday upended a century's worth of campaign finance law. An immediate question raised by the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision is whether this will flood elections with suddenly legal corporate money. Less understood but deeply significant is what this shows about the court and its relationship to the Obama administration and Congress.

This far-reaching ruling augurs a significant power struggle. For the first time since 1937, an increasingly conservative federal judiciary faces a progressive and activist Congress and president. Until now, it was unclear how the justices would accommodate the new political alignment. The Citizens United decision suggests an assertive court, eager to overturn precedent, looming as a challenge to President Obama's agenda.

Through most of American history, courts have usually stood to the right of the elected branches, especially on issues concerning business. Progressive Era federal judges routinely voided social legislation, from the income tax to the minimum wage and limits on the hours worked by women and children. In the New Deal, the Supreme Court's "nine old men" struck down myriad new programs until Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court by expanding its ranks. Only then did the justices relent. (Wags dubbed it "the switch in time that saved nine.") Over the past four decades, 12of the 15 new justices since were appointed by Republican presidents. But they had few liberal laws to react to.

Now, though, as elected branches have moved haltingly to the left, the court has moved sharply right. Chief Justice John Roberts has mustered five votes for a conservative judicial approach that eluded his predecessors Warren Burger and William Rehnquist. Long-germinating conservative legal theories have begun to guide opinions, most notably in the 2008 case that found an inviolable right to own a handgun that the court had never previously discerned in 200 years....

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[rebel with a cause]

3. Amen to that.

For once we can blame the democrats on the ground instead of those in office. Oh wait a minute, we can blame those in office and in the party that are encouraging these idiots to be idiotic. And we all know their names. :nuke:

[HughMoran]

6. Supreme Court, Environment, Healthcare, etc.

All go in the shitter if Republicans take back control, yet the "there's no difference" crew refuses to see the nose on their own face.

[Cha]

15. The whole damn country will

keep going down the tubes like it was until January 2009 but the snark contest on DU continues.

Got some real LOSERS.

[NJmaverick]

4. Absolutely, I even wrote an OP about it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x142599

[goclark]

18. NJ ~ you are brave to post there

and you will "discuss" issues even with the worst of them.

I salute your ability to stay calm.

[FrenchieCat]

5. Frightening stuff.

Media reform is the only solution. Cause that's were the money gets spent.

That's what my letter to the POTUS is going to be about.

This is quite frightening. :scared:

[TicketyBoo]

20. I think that

political television ads should be outlawed. Think of the billions of dollars that have swirled down that particular rathole. Dollars that could have been spent on health care or infrastructure or whatever.

Let people find out about candidates via news outlets rather than phony ads that lie and distort, anyway.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. I'm not quite sure people understand how screwed we are. I hope Congress...

has something in the pipelines to counteract this. I heard on NPR this afternoon that this could apply to megachurches like The 700 Club as well. I'm hoping that both sides of the aisle will come together in opposition to this travesty of a ruling. How can regular citizens match the deep pockets of huge multinational corporations?

[firedupdem]

9. Unbelievable!

Can anything be done though? Once there is a ruling can it be challenged? I'm feeling really slow right now...this is horrible.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. The token Libertarian constitutional scholar, Jonathan Tur(D)ley seems...

to agree with the ruling, and feels that Congress doesn't have a lot of options. The highest court in the land has made their decision. This is the same court that gave us George W. Bush, and how the Gang of Five hasn't been impeached is beyond me. Democrats will be driven from office simply because they can't compete with the monied interests. I hate to say it, but this ruling is the very definition of fascism.

[Cha]

16. Yeah, I never did like him.

[Silver Gaia]

21. "I hate to say it, but this ruling is the very definition of fascism."

Yes, it is.

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Self Delete. Responded to wrong post.

[Peacetrain]

8. This is probably the scariest ruling I have ever seen or read.. the ramifications are numbing

[BlueCaliDem]

10. America's wake up call that repukes are detrimental to the American people

... which makes Brown's election so painfully stupid.

[Solomon]

13. I think it's the gift that will keep on giving.

Until it's undone.

Democrats can rally around this one.

[Cha]

14. I never had any doubt

but when something like this happens it should be more obvious to those who care more about the country than how clever their snark is on DU.

[nevergiveup]

17. I am an old codger,

been around a long time and seen lots of SCOTUS rulings over the decades but never one that scared me like this one. Obama had so much on his plate as it was and now this?

[Cha]

19. And, yet, you've never

given up!:)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. I've been talking to Republicans and Democrats alike across the country since the ruling.

They all equally agree that our nation is fucked because of it. Republicans are at least a little happy over the power they get, but they know what this means too.