Reporter or McCain Flack? USA Today's Biskupic Echoes Campaign Finance Talking Points

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Here's how USA Today's Joan Biskupic started her June 25 article on the Supreme Court's ruling in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, the case in which the Court struck down a televised ad ban in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. (emphasis mine)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday opened the door to corporate and union financing of broadcast ads subtly attacking candidates for federal office before an election, in a 5-4 decision that is likely to make it harder for Congress to regulate campaign financing in the future.

The decision also could bring about a new flood of corporate and big-money spending on the 2008 elections.

If I didn't know better I'd think she were auditioning for a PR job with the John McCain for President campaign.

Here's how Biskupic colleague Jill Lawrence of the paper's "On Politics" blog tracked McCain's reaction to the ruling (emphasis mine):

12:12 p.m. Republican John McCain: "... It is regrettable that a split Supreme Court has carved out a narrow exception by which some corporate and labor expenditures can be used to target a federal candidate in the days and weeks before an election. It is important to recognize, however, that the Court's decision does not affect the principal provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which bans federal officeholders from soliciting soft money contributions for their parties to spend on their campaigns ... Fortunately, that central reform still stands as the law."


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McCain got struck another blo

McCain got struck another blow today.

Period.

There is no other spin...try as you may Joan and all your silly little leftist ilk.

The decision tickled me pink, long time coming, and if memory serves me correct Senate Leader McConnell had a lot to do with this suit all the way up to the SC.

Bribery is a good thing

Having a deep affection for Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt who both knew government was the biggest threat to the United States citizens, I simply cheer, smile and beam whenever a Conservative court slaps Congress around and removes it's dictatorial powers.

Thank God for John Roberts, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, Tony Scalia and I presume Kennedy swayed to his roots in telling Congress to quit meddling in free speech. (The fairness Queens of Clintonista & Boxermao should pay attention to their singling out talk radio is also unconstitutional.)

I really don't see what is the problem with oil companies or corporations pouring in millions of dollars in backing a candidate. I remember reading the memos of Howard Hughs in buying the Democratic party after Robert Kennedy was murdered. One of his men just handed Hubert Humphrey a million dollars in a case in the back of a limo.......HH did the same thing to Dick Nixon as business always backs both sides in a race for influence.

Now take yourself back to the 50's and 60's when all this was going on when moguls who had an interest in America prospering were buying candidates, the nation prospered and people prospered.

It wasn't until the democrats shut it all down and only 2 sources were allowed to donate in the Rockefeller cartel and the Hollywood clique that this country really started going to hell literally. Before it was just chosen horrid events like removing God from schools to Roe vs Wade judicial legislation, but after 72 it was wholesale taking rights away.

Do you know what Thomas Jefferson or Teddy Roosevelt would say about seatbelt laws or the current Bush trend requiring Americans to have passports to go to Canada for goodness sake? They would be the first ones saying stop making criminals of innocent Americans and start arresting terrorists instead of papering US citizens.

That is why American companies and big shots bribing politicians carrying out policy which helps businesses prosper here and abroad is a good thing. I am not talking about comrade Warren Buffet who rapes economies by not producing one job nor comrade George Soros who rapes nations plundering them, but bushels of millionaires who love America and produce products and jobs. See they out number the Buffet, Soros, Gates clique BUT CAN NOT COMPETE as Democrats have their donations shut down to thousands of dollars. That is called a monopoly and is illegal.

Now comrade Feingold knows this and so does dude McCain, Feingold wants the lack of American patriot funds coming in as that monopoly helps democrats and McCain loves it as his monopoly of gaming mafia money is a wellspring no challengers can compete with.

So a little reality in this needs to come to light as no one is telling the truth in this as the bribes politicians are getting now are from the cliques controlling global schemes and controlling justice.

American business will solve these problems from gas prices, to creating jobs as it makes them money.....as government created these problems for monopolies. Way to go Supreme Court.......of course you still have 4 flat worlders on there voting for the globalist ilk, but this is a great positive.

Let the bribery begin, because a little bribery creates a socialist democracy, but everyone pouring in money creates a Republic of checks and balances.

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Too bad Roberts and Alito wer

Too bad Roberts and Alito weren't on the Supreme Court when McCain-Feingold was first signed.

You said it all there Nbb.

You said it all there Nbb.

The answer is not to try and stop the donations

Don't try and stop or limit donations (because you can't).But to enforce absolute disclosure. Personally Iike the system that Allen Keyes proposed back in 2000 when he was running for the Presidential nomination: No donation to a political campaign except from someone who can cast a vote in that election. Remove the $$ limit and have complete and timely disclosure of all donations. Get rid of the law that creates all the 503 corporations that enable individuals and corps and unions, etc to hide themselves.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic