With this Republican Cloak of Secrecy not comfortably shielding our Corporate masters

perhaps it could be put to other uses as well. I'm thinking the big mj dealers could pool money and get pot legalized while appearing to be a humane church group.

Wait. Something about that doesn't sound right.

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oops.
not= now.

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You are so far Left and out of touch it's downright funny. Do you have any original thoughts, or is it just your MSNBC clone talking? Any bill that gives more power to archaic unions and special interest groups is doomed to fail, now that the country has finally awakened to just what kind of Congress and Administration we have. Soon enough you'll have plenty of time to lament even more ridiculous bills being stopped in their tracks. I would rather listen to Fox News over your senseless rants any day of the week. Obama received by FAR more money than anyone else ever has through nefarious sources. He wields the government like his own personal mob. I for one, (oh and the other 65% of the country who oppose his policies), am quite happy.

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Who cares about reporting campaign contributions. The politicians that are corrupt are going to vote the way their handlers want them to whether or not the donors are reported or not, and the honest ones (if there are any left) won't. It should be a total free for all. Candidates should be able to raise as much money as they want from any source they want. If they turn out to be corrupt, then we should vote them out. That is how you solve that. Not by further meaningless restrictions on free speech like that fiasco, McCain/Feingold. Which by the way was a total joke, and was a total failure, while simultaneously restricting free speech.

Any more laws on this is just restricting free speech. Which I realize big libs are all for when its their free speech we're talking about (such as freedom to spout off anything they want to in a blog) But when it comes to other peoples free speech, I guess not so much.

But just like McCain / Feingold, big libs never learn that just passing more laws don't work. You could say no more campaign financing at all, and they would still find ways to get cash. More freedom is better than less freedom. Since when did being a big lib become synonymous with restricting freedom? Oh I forgot, a long A$$ time ago.

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I'd rather see a new law that direct contributions to candidates and political parties are allowed only from registered voters in the candidate's district. That approach hasn't been tried yet, and it would do a lot more to clean up politics that the legislation that failed in the Senate today. Then the out-of-district influences won't matter so much, although they could continue to do independent expenditures.

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Max apparently forgot this group when delivering his scorn for those opposed: the AFL-CIO.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/a…

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The only way to fix this will be tax-payer funded elections with everyone getting some of that free government controlled TV air space. Sound too logical to actually have two people run and discuss something based on the merits with exactly the same amount of funding and no outside money either to or for the candidate. Like it will ever happen unless...

we get some European companies through their US owned companies to donate big dollars to the Democrats and then all of a sudden, the Republicans would discover the need for honesty and openness.

How do we know that the Saudis, using petrodollars that we supply, aren't actually financing candidates over here already to take over the country? There are a lot of Republicans who buy into their strict moral code (if they leave out a few of the nastier things) like "family values", religious fascism, and the need for nationalism. We already know that Republicans don't buy into American exceptialism, they have their own form Republican exceptialism.

We are actually moving toward the British model with the Republicans feeling they are the House of Lords and only they are capable of leading (make that destroying) the country.

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Kind of like how the Chinese Communist funneled money into the Clinton campaign fund? Kind of like that? Yes I guess Democrats NEVER take foreign money.

I'll never forget one of the funniest videos ever was Al Gore walking around that Chinese buddhist temple with the buddhist priests during this particular scandal. I miss Al Gore.

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It's amusing to see conservatives talking about the abuses of this funding while arguing that it should continue.

If there any better proof that they can believe something and vote against it simply because the other party introduced it?

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Public campaign finance is our best bet. From party nominations to election day.

The Dems, once again, are just playing kabuki around the edges. Rich folks and CEO's will gladly stand in front of a camera, lie, obfuscate and find just as many ways as their best PR firm and lawyers can come up with to spin. As long as they can continue buying the system out... the Dems are saying that's just fine.

Fixing the horrific legislating from the bench of the Roberts court... is not enough. Not even close. We had far to many problems before the Roberts court made things worse.

As long as Senators and Congressmen have to raise millions to run a race... 90 plus percent of us will lose.

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This rejection will serve to make them all "honest politicians."

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
Simon Cameron

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"I miss Al Gore."

I did too, ActUp, especially when we had a brain dead appointed prez for 8 long years. It's nice to have someone smart back in charge after enduring the wasteland known as Bush/Cheney.

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...and now introducing the Governor of Minnesota...sponsored in part by Target - expect more, pay less!

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Interesting to note, just two day ago: Former Acorn employee, Anita will turn over records pertaining to our President and his ugly ways in 2008. You are worried about Target sponsoring a Governor? Get real Lefties

http://justpiper.com/2010/07/acorn-whisle-…

Check out that cute photo of Reid, while your there.

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Gee.....try to spread a little sunlight and the wingnuts come out of the woodwork howling! Look it....everything about our government is corrupt, has been for years and is getting worse with this new gift from the SupReme CouRt. It's USSR all over again and eventually our country will fail and it will be the survival of the fittest...which leaves me out.

Anyone who gives any money to a candidate for office should have their name revealed. Anyone who gives money to a 527 or any smear campaign should have their name revealed. What part of the American Way is covering up shit like a cat in the backyard? Would Abe Lincoln even be a Republican these days? I think not.

But go ahead wingnuts and rich-wanna-bees....let the wealthiest people and corporations own our asses like dogs on a leash. Hide and watch and see how your working class Republican family suffers every bit as much as mine.

Once again the 40 obstructionist Republican votes were > than the 58 (Reid switched to no to allow a re-vote) Democratic & Independent votes. Historians will look back and after writing about what assholes Republicans were, will also call the Democrats goddamn idiots for allowing this 60 vote bullshit to ruin our country.

I'm gonna go on eBay tomorrow and bid on a boat and if the guy ahead of me bids more I'm going to scream bloody murder and tell them that anyone knows $8,250 bid beats $8,275! Uh HUH....Congress sez so! Give me my damn boat!

Yeah, corrupt governments will always say 40 beats 58 and they'll tell you our kids are dying in the Middle East for a wonderful cause. And they'll let the former administration filled with killers and crooks off free because we must look forward...not back. Try that forward, not back shit tomorrow. Reach over and squeeze the receptionist's tit and then run away hollering FORWARD NOT BACK!

Our government is crooked, our election system is crooked, a lot of the people we'll be voting for or against this November are crooked. Anyone not for this the bill that was voted down today is either crooked or dumb as hell.

Take your pick, there's no good reason to hide who gives money to candidates or puts up the money for smear campaigns. Put Breitbart and Beck in jail, close down Fox News and we might be able the start the restoration of this fallen country.

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Why should everyone have to reveal their names? What is the point to that? Either you have free speech or you don't. You hypocritical big libs obviously don't want free speech. Just admit it. YOU are the ones wanting the former USSR with NO free speech, and governments put you in jail for saying something. Anybody should be able to say anything they want, and its up to others to listen or not, or say they are full of BS. Why are big libs so afraid of real free speech?

Unless of course it is your particular version of free speech, or your free speech specifically you're talking about. Then all of a sudden your big 1st amendment advocates. But 1st and 2nd amendment, you apparently want to get rid of. And apparently everyone else shouldn't have free speech except you. Typical big lib hypocrisy.

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Why should everyone have to reveal their names? What is the point to that? Either you have free speech or you don't. - ActMax

Rights in the Constitution are granted to Citizens not Corporations.

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