The Hits Just Keep On Coming

Now the Supreme Court weighs in with a political gift equivalent to what Massachusetts delivered Tuesday.  The five conservative Republican appointees to the Nation’s Highest Court today enshrined as law the following definition:  Corporations spending unlimited amounts of money to secure the election of candidates who will give them whatever they want is “free speech.”  If you thought Wall Street had adequately displayed its ownership of Congress by thwarting any meaningful financial reform in the wake of the financial system melt down, well stand by.  You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Republican Presidents appointed all the five justices issuing this radical ruling.  George Bush named two of the five.

Beginning in the administration of Ronald Reagan Republicans adopted policies that began the greatest transfer of wealth in American history.  The funnel, of course, has been aimed squarely at the bank accounts of the wealthiest of our citizens.  The Supreme Court now says the wealthiest, through the corporations they own, can spend unlimited amounts of money to secure the election of candidates who will watch their backs.

Can anyone still hear the graceful Lincoln words: government “of the people, by the people, for the people?”  I hear five justices singing government “of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy.”  It is the government we get from the party chosen Tuesday by Massachusetts.

After the 1972 Presidential election many Massachusetts residents displayed a bumper sticker that read:  “Don’t blame me.  I’m from Massachusetts.”  It was the only state that voted for George McGovern over Richard Nixon.  As vast sums of new money flow to the 2010 Republican candidates for the House and Senate we’re going to need a new bumper sticker.