Even Fox News is Slamming the Supreme Court Decision

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/21/ellen-ratner-supreme-court-mccain-feingold-campaign/?test=latestnews

This is a very good sign: even Fox News has an editorial up harshly criticizing the appalling Supreme Court Decision today.

The decision was 5-4, with the conservative wing entirely in the majority opinion. Anthony Kennedy, the semi-swing vote, obviously went with the majority on this one. The liberal wing was entirely in the dissent. A 90-page dissent was written by 89 year old Justice John Paul Stevens.

To have FoxNews opposing this decision as a sign of a deteriorating democracy is perhaps a ray of hope that it can be reversed.

Supreme Court sends us back to early 1900s

The Supreme Court made an absolutely abhorrent decision today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/opinion/22fri1.html?hpw

This is brutal. Personally, I think that corporations should not be allowed to contribute at all to political campaigns. I think contributions should be limited to a representative's direct constitiuents alone. So if you're running from the 5th district, you should only be allowed to take limited donations from people residing and voting in the 5th district. No one from the 6th district or anywhere else should be allowed to donate to your campaign. And certainly, no corporation should be allowed to donate. Corporations already have more than enough power over the political process.

Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, asked that as a nation we dedicate ourselves, so "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

This decision is certainly going in the wrong direction.

Is Health Care Reform the new Iraq War?

Is Health Care Reform the new Iraq War?

Nate Silver has a really insightful post up about how lies impact public opinion on public policy.

"Learning from Europe"

I agree with Krugman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html