Supreme Court Delivers More Bad News
Friday, 01/22/2010 - 10:07 am by Bo Cutter | 2 Comments
Shaping the future with today’s choices.
The Supreme Court just voted 5-4 — and yes, all of the votes were the way you would expect — to allow corporations and unions unlimited ability to invest in elections. They didn’t, of course, use the word “invest,” I did. This is really crazy. If you want to answer the question why doesn’t Washington work; or why is our political system in such gridlock; or why do our politicians seem to act the way they do; after you look at everything, the answer is always the same — money in politics. This decision will start an arms race in politics that will be almost impossible to turn off and that will make our underlying policies even less rational or directed to the pubic good then they are today. Forget Massachusetts, this decision by the Court is far and away the biggest and worst news of a bad week.
Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow and Braintruster Bo Cutter is formerly a managing partner of Warburg Pincus, a major global private equity firm. Recently, he served as the leader of President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) transition team.
Well, it’s not like they weren’t buying our politicians already. The Chamber of Commerce apparently spent over $71 million in just the past few months on lobbying:
http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201001210003
Posted by Zach P | January 22nd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Obama should have sent federal marshalls to the Supreme Court and arrested the five partisan judges for treason, even though the charges probably would not have stood up.
Posted by W. H. Martin | February 6th, 2010 at 5:29 pm