Five Guys With A Side Of Corporatism

Reaction to yesterday's Supreme Court decision killing campaign finance reform limits has been equally brutal and depressing.  Making the rounds, we start with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick:

But you can plainly see the weariness in Stevens eyes and hear it in his voice today as he is forced to contend with a legal fiction that has come to life today, a sort of constitutional Frankenstein moment when corporate speech becomes even more compelling than the "voices of the real people" who will be drowned out. Even former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once warned that treating corporate spending as the First Amendment equivalent of individual free speech is "to confuse metaphor with reality." Today that metaphor won a very real victory at the Supreme Court. And as a consequence some very real corporations are feeling very, very good.

Over at They Gave Us A Republic, Blue Girl is pissed off.

Today five Supreme Court Justices shat all over the Constitution and turned us into the United States of Exxon-Mobile.

Corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Period. The Founders never envisioned this, and everyone who has taken American History knows it. And none of us ever want to hear any of those five corporate cock-suckers - Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and ole "balls and strikes" himself, the biggest corporate cock-sucker of them all, the one with the sloppiest chin in America tonight, John mother-fucking can't-wait-til-he-siezes-during-arguments-and-flops-around-on-the-bench-like-a-fish Roberts.

I knew he was a lying snake when he made his now-infamous "balls and strikes" comment during his confirmation.

If today's decision is not grounds to impeach the sons-of-bitches, I don't know what it would take.

And she's right.  Bob Cesca sees an opening for the Donks.

Of course the Republicans are. Because they're all about populism, right? Not only are the Republicans against taxing the banks to recover the TARP funds, but they're also against re-regulating Wall Street, and they're in favor of allowing corporations to spend unlimited cash on political campaigns (that is, unless that corporation is run by George Soros, right?).

But it's Dave Weigel who tells it like it is:


And so it goes.