Liberty and Justice for All!

Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling just handed our government over to huge corporations and will prevent the ability of any real meaningful candidacy to oppose the candidates selected by the corporations.

In 2007, Exxon Mobile made over $40 billion in profit. There are typically 33-34 Senatorial elections every 2 years. If they set aside just over $1.5 billion per year for Senatorial elections, they could literally fund $80 million of advertising per hand selected candidate in each election year.

Between 2005 and 2010, Senator Harry Reid spent just over $5 million. In the same time period Senator DeMint spent just over $2 million. Even Senator Landrieu in a swing state spent only $10 million in that time period. Senator Hutchinson spent $14 million during that time as well. The hand picked candidates of Exxon Mobile would be able to have $80 million of advertising ran for each them over that same time period (or over $17 million a year).

Before this decision, the RCCC only had $2 million on hand to support candidates this year. Now, big oil can put up $3 billion every 2 years and pay for $10 million in advertising for 300 GOP congressional candidates, more than enough to control the House of Representatives.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spent just over $1 million on her election. Republican Eric Cantor spent just over $1.5 million on his election.

Sure, that assumes that Exxon Mobile would spend $3 billion of its net profits a year on elections. But why wouldn’t they if they would then own Congress and our their Government.

Anyone who claims that only liberal courts can be “activists” is an idiot. And what the hell ever happened to the idea of Stare Decisis that Justice Alito supposedly respected?

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 10:12 pm and is filed under Activist Conservative Court, Why I would never be a Republican, politics, campaign finance reform, What is wrong with America. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.