Rich gain clout as Supreme Court kills political spending limits

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David Horsey doesn't just draw awesome political cartoons - he also has a column (you probably already know this - but just in case you're in the same boat as me I'm putting this up here):

Rich gain clout as Supreme Court kills political spending limits

By David Horsey

April 3, 2014, 5:00 a.m.

America has seen some impressive winning streaks -- the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan, the New York Yankees for half the 20thcentury, Tiger Woods until his wife caught him with his putter on the wrong green --– but few can surpass the string of wins being racked up by rich people. And now, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives, the super-wealthy can take another victory lap.

On Wednesday, in a 5-4 ruling, the highest court in the land took one more big step toward eliminating all the campaign finance laws that have been enacted since the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. This time they struck down limits on the amount of money any individual can give to candidates running for the House and Senate.

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“Taken together with Citizens United, today’s decision eviscerates our nation’s campaign finance laws,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer said in his dissent from the ruling. Some observers predict that the path is now open for the court to kill every remaining restraint on spending in elections ...

More here: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-supreme-court-spending-limits-20140403,0,5185172.story#ixzz2xsBpl72y

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1. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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2. John Roberts proves his astonishing stupidity.

He will go down in history as the worst chief justice. He is a stupid and arrogant little man, who only knows how to kiss up to his billionaire overlords. What a pathetic man he is.

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3. I'm not a fan of his either -

although he is marginally better than Scalia and Thomas. I'm not sure how those two function on a day to day basis, much less have any business serving on our highest court.

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4. His stupidty is greater than either of those two.

Thomas is at least smart enough to mostly follow the old maxim "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." While I do not agree with any of his decisions, he is at least consistent in his devotion to his incredibly warped world view. Thomas evokes a combination of pity and revulsion. He seems to have been stuck at the intellectual age of 12 years old. He must have been the subject of incredible amounts of molestation and abuse that he is in complete denial over. Every time I see him I wonder what caused his Stockholm Syndrome.

Scalia is the sociopath poster child. He is glib, charming and completely immune to any feelings of empathy. When speaking he is quite eloquent(while spewing completely repugnant ideas). He embraces every fascist concept to the fullest. He appears to ape Benito Mussolini. Unfortunately, like most sociopaths, Scalia is not stupid, just completely amoral. He obviously gets his jollies causing people pain. The hair on the back of my neck stands up whenever I hear him speak, his persona screams "Predator!".

Roberts seems to be slowly deteriorating intellectually. He never was a great intellect, but his opinions are growing increasingly disjointed and just plain weird. He seems not to notice how completely idiotic he sounds. His opinions on the VRA and the McCutcheon case are completely ridiculous. While people have been outraged by the decisions, we really need to point out how nutty his opinions are. These are signs of someone who is no longer capable of rational thought. Does he suffer from traumatic brain injury from playing football and from the nasty fall he took awhile back? He has had a couple of unexplained seizures, too. If his stupidity is caused by a medical condition, then I can feel pity for him. Otherwise, all he gets is scorn for his lack of intellect.