Some tough love from the Wall Street Journal:
So how about it, goo-goos? Your standard bearer on Capitol Hill looks like a goner, and the Supreme Court has rightly gutted your schemes to limit political money as a violation of the First Amendment. John McCain is still around, but we doubt any Republicans will be foolish enough to follow him again down this primrose path. Accept the fact that money can't be purged from politics, and we'll even give you something in return for admitting reality.
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Gloat away, WSJ:
Not only has a gusher of campaign spending made far more Congressional seats competitive, but the patron political saint of campaign-finance reform, Russ Feingold, may be run out of the Senate by voters in Wisconsin, the birthplace of progressive politics. Be sure to confiscate all sharp objects around Common Cause and certain editorial boards after 10 p.m. tonight.
WSJ goes on to knock Nancy Pelosi about and revel in the SCOTUS Citizens United decision:
That failure was underscored recently by no less an expert than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who explained her party's troubles this year by saying that "Everything was going great and all of a sudden secret money from God knows where—because they won't disclose it—is pouring in."
By "God knows where," the Speaker means from the businesses whose First Amendment rights to engage in political speech were restored by the Supreme Court in January's Citizens United v. FEC.
Basking in the murky glory of Buckley v. Valeo which the WSJ dislcosed allowed limits on political contributions to candidates while tossing out overall campaign spending limits, creating the "millionaires loophole" for super rich candidates, as well as ushering in the era of PACs.
In a closing aside, the Wall ponders the perils of disclosure of whence all the filthy money speweth forth, agonizing over the "liberal" attacks on poor little Target. Trying to be sweet, the Wall urges "liberals" not to drink and drive.
Um, isn't that something that's more along the line of folks like GWB, possibly the Boehner?
Of course, the Boehner is probably chauffeured to all his destinations and can get as soused as he wishes.
And the loud, overreaching speech of money is so, so sweet as it drowns out the voices of the mere and miserable lower humans, aka the working class and "liberals."