Citizen's United Redux

There's now eight months to go before the mid-term elections and Rob Perry's Swiftboaters are busy compiling information on a variety of Democratic congressmen. The Tea Party folks are rapidly solidifying their position as a second front to target Dems who believe government resources should be spent on people who need it. In the meantime, the Dems and their supporters are playing Nero's fiddle by redoubling efforts to introduce legislation to try to undue the Citizen's United decision. The DSCC has its Google AD about "not we the corporation" and Dick Durbin is pushing for taxpayer funded elections (a good idea) with a new bill authorizing public funds when candidates raise small contributions from lots of contributors (I really do like that). After all there is no doubt the public overwhelmingly opposed the decision so why shouldn't the Dems focus their attention in that direction?

It's called REALITY.

After all, the Dems had a supermajority in the senate and they got all of those bills they passed turned into law. Well almost all. Well, okay, not very many. But, no problem they will most definitely still get Durbin's bill into law without the supermajority. No problem there whatsoever. Sure.

Besides, with Obama as president, the Supreme Court is about to become more progressive because all of the older judges with health related issues are conservative. Well almost all. Well okay, they're all part of the liberal block and at best with his appointment's President Obama can only keep the court from going MORE conservative. But, fortunately, even a conservative court wouldn't dare interject it's personal views into politics and especially elections, so they won't issue an emergency stay to prevent implementation of any bills passed to offset the fallout from Citizen's United. Al Gore can vouch for that.

So to recap, chances are pretty slight that the Dems will get bills through congress that offset the impact from Citizen's United and if they do, the Supreme Court is not about to let those bills take effect.

So Dem interest groups, the clock is ticking. It's time to get your butts' in gear. Focus your resources where they can be the most effective. Use your funds to investigate those candidates from the other side and educate the voters as to who they really are before it is too late!