Friday, January 22, 2010

Where are the Outraged Tea Party Protesters who Have Now Just Lost their Freedoms to Corporate Money?


So this is their vision of representative government?

I searched long and hard for any evidence of tea party anger over monied corporate interests suffocating an individuals voice and freedom. Do libertarians really think they stand a chance affecting change by pushing against billion dollar corporate interests?

I did find a few lines in this Newsmax story, reflecting the conservatives concerns that corporate America's voice might be threatened by the "left":


"I think this is ideological for the president," Brian Darling, director of Senate relations at the Heritage Foundation, tells Newsmax. "I think he and the left are intent on taking away the voice of corporate America.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC was divided along straight conservative and liberal lines. While unions will be equally liberated to spend whatever they want on their preferred slate of candidates, most pundits see it as a clear advantage for the GOP — if only because corporations have much deeper pockets than the unions.

"Many of our tea party members are business owners," Everett Wilkinson, a Tea Party Patriots leader, tells Newsmax. "This will let them get involved easier in the
process … [it will be] much easier to operate."
Sure, especially when the business owners are out spent a gazillion to one.

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