They have all the money, power and still whine about American's who hate Citizens United.

hold my breath...

How can McConnell expect to twist the 1st Amendment into protecting SECRET "free speech" in the form of unlimited corporate-funded political advertising? I believe it was Justice Stevens who pointed out that the 1st Amendment rights of corporations are not unlimited because (a) they don't have the right to vote and (b) their only reason for existence, let alone political advertising, is crass profit for shareholders.

The Times editorial you linked in turn links to McConnell's USA Today editorial, but omitted McConnell's spurious "First Amendment" rationale for opposig the Disclose Act. IIRC, even the USSC's Citizens United decision opposed SECRET unlimited political bribes almost unanimously. The only exception was Justics Clarence Thomas.

How can McConnell expect this to fly?

From http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2012-07-05/Disclose-Act-Mitch-McConnell/56046300/1 :

"Disclose Act is un-American
By Mitch McConnell

I have spent nearly my entire career defending the First Amendment from Democratic and Republican attempts to undermine it. And I have yet to encounter a serious attempt to limit our freedom of speech that doesn't sound good at first blush. And that's what is happening with the so-called Disclose Act. ..."

and try to tarnish Obama's reputation.

No criticism is too small, no theory too conspiratorial, and if he can peel away a few votes here and there in the process, so much the easier to achieve his only true goal, which is to defeat Obama in November - after which none of these pesky little laws will matter.

The repubs worry when agencies actually do the work they were set up to do because the repubs and their corporate sponsors/contributors will be found to be in violation of the laws/regulations under the agencies' purview.


Thanks for posting this, it is appreciated.

To hide FOREIGN donors so they can influence our elections, I thought Repugs are against this kind of shite! The answer to almost every problem we discuss here is total and complete CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM. Beat that drum loudly and often, it will ultimately solve most of our problems!

as they have allowed themselves to be convinced by foreign-owned media to hate their own nation's citizen-based governance so much they are willing to hand it over to the rule of multinational corporations.

They can't stand that mirror that I place in front of them.

OMFG! OMG! "They" are getting too close to the Truth! OMG! Stop The President Now!
Panic! It's too soon to let this out-we haven't secured our takeover yet!
Amp up McCarthyism Tactics!
Oh My! What a classic abuse of leaning on Free Speech!

Why was I not surprised when I looked to see who its author was?

McConnell is reptilian: a scrawny turtle attempting to cross
a hot interstate highway...

And there's a multi-ton semi-truck careening down the interstate
heading right for that nasty, little snapping turtle..

The Obama express....

With apologies to the yellow-bellied slider!

I want to see the DNA chart of the creature on the right.
I don't think it's a human- and therefore it's not eligible to serve in the senate.

When you or I make a donation it is not tax deductible. When the Koch brothers donate $60 million they use corporate funds which are deductible as a business expense. Is that not how the system works? Thanks Citizens United, for turning everything on its head.

before it's too late. The Repubs are too close now to lose everything they have worked for since the 60's. Hard to believe the average Joe's out there, fall for their lies and vote against their own interest.

You meant the 1860's, right!

The party of Lincoln is now the party of Lincoln-haters.

..sometimes..at parties...he pretends he doesn't even know us!1! *sob*

The Human Turtle knows full well that the baggers will have all sorts of visions of the scary black man sending his scary Black Panthers after them with their scary black machine guns if they dare to speak out about how scary and black the President is.

OMG! Someone might find out he hid his chin in an off-shore account!

... and not receive some push-back? "


Hell yes they did. Fighting back in class warfare, or haven't you heard?

McConnell is a party bot. He will only say what the Repugs tell him to.

And then he'll have to get elected on his IDEAS and POLICY stances.

What a nightmare for him.

This is the scandal just waiting to happen....this may be mcconnel's biggest worry

worried that his Cayman Islands bank accounts will be disclosed? Yes he is. Who knows how much bribe money he's stashed in secret off shore tax havens? Any way you look at the Republican cartel it's immoral and corrupt to the bone.

McConnell's fear-mongering and whoring for the ultra wealthy disgusts me. When next he's up for election, which I think is in 2014, I shall donate to whomever his Dem opponent is, and I don't even live in KY. But to see his back going out the door will give me extreme pleasure. More than anyone else, even including Eric Cantor, McConnell is responsible for the extreme obstructionism of the GOP.

The people of Kentucky who have continually voted against their own best interests by keeping McConnell in office have a lot to be ashamed for.