The New York Times has a fairly sleazy editorial from Montana's Democrat Governor Brian Schweitzer, who usually has a lot more common sense.
Once you cut through all the faux folksy verbiage, what Schweizer basically wants is to reverse the Supreme Court's Citizens United decison and ban all corporate money from politics.
Funny thing...he doesn't say one word about banning money from public employee unions!
I especially liked the way he went back to the 19th century as an example of 'corporate corruption', when all Senators were appointed based on what influence they had with the powers that be in individual states rather than elected by popular vote.
What Governor Schweitzer is proposing is not taking money out of politics, but simply stacking the deck permanently in favor of one party.
So much for his call to 'limit corruption'.
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Excellent post, however, I think it would more accurate if the title was "Another Democrat wants to further stack the deck on Campaign Contributions." You see the deck is already stacked in favor of Democrats.
At best for Republicans, the "Corporate vote" breaks 50/50 between Democrats and Republicans. In actuality more of this vote probably goes Democrat than Republican because the "Crony Capitalists" benefit heavily from the big government programs pushed by Democrats.
As such, a better name for this instead of "crony capitalists" would be "corporate socialism" or "corporate welfare." Its called Crony Capitalism because Democrats and their media shills wish to malign true capitalism. True Capitalism has not been practiced in this country for at least 50 years and probably longer, if it ever really was.
Between the Union vote and the government employee vote which is a monolithic Democrat vote, and the news media to constantly shill for Democrats positon, as well as complete control of the government beuracracy that allows Democrats to swing any somewhat close election there way the deck is already heavily stacked in favor of the Democrats. The Republicans don't have any thing close to the apparatus that the Democrats have for winning elections.
The substance of the post is spot on, however, rather than stack the deck in favor of Democrats this man wishes to FURTHER stack the deck in favor of Democrats.
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