Mitch McConnell: Citizens United Amendment Is An 'Absurd Proposal'

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate corporate personhood rights on Friday, calling the idea "absurd."

The amendment, proposed by Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Tuesday, would establish that corporations are not people with constitutional rights. This would overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which holds that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited funds on political campaigns as long as that spending is independent from candidates and political parties.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/mitch-mcconnell-citizens-united_n_3480083.html?ir=Politics

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. utter hogwash McTurtle!

Corporations are less a person than my pet pooch!

[JustAnotherGen]

2. He's Weak

He's so weak. I'd love it for this asshole to get sent home next year.

You know - if they are people - why don't they have to serve on juries?

Pay PERSONAL income taxes?

One or the other. You don't get to be both.

[GiveMeFreedom]

4. Get pregnant? Try that you corporate pigs. n/t

[90-percent]

3. It's an old meme

But McTurtle should chew upon this.

I'll believe corporations are people when texas executes one.

Thom Hartmann has pointed out that in the 19th Century, it was not unusual for the government to REVOKE CORPORATE CHARTERS if a corporation broke the law or perhaps hurt the general well being in some other way. There was such a thing as a corporate death penalty back then. Makes you wonder if such laws are even still in force?

Approximately 558,000 injuries and 2,300 deaths were a consequence of the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster. Seven former employees went to jail for 2 years, some cases are still pending, and I don't know if UC was fined? If they were, the amount was probably the equivalent of 20 minutes of corporate profits.

-90% Jimmy

[BlueDemKev]

5. The only things that's 'absurd' is the fact we have to do this at all...

Courtesy of five (5) activist right-wingers on the Supreme Court who are determined to roll back over a century of progress.

[ellenfl]

6. this bill needs a widespread citizen media push so when repubs vote no the public will know. eom