Corporate Free Speech is Limited to Money

Republicans and their Supreme Court cronies have for decades now fought to make corporations be considered to a person. The result has been changes in the way we think about free speech, and especially campaign contributions from corporations. And as long as those corporations spoke only via their check books (preferably checks written out to GOP candidates) all was fine in McConnell land. But now these corporations have found voices beyond money, they have made their opinions heard, and that is suddenly no longer what Republicans had envisioned. So in a classic High-Noon speech, McConnell came out blazing, furious that his corporate cronies spoke out, against Republican lies. This whole statement of his is just too rich to comment on everything he said, so absolutely worth a read: www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/…

Carsten Schmidt @carstens