Dem Amend 1st Amendment?

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ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) - A Democratic representative is calling for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow for some legislative restriction of freedom of speech.
“We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was quoted as saying by CNS News.
He reportedly made these comments while speaking at the Annesbrooks HOA candidate [background=transparent]Forum[/background] held last month.

In a video obtained by the website, Johnson asserts that “corporations control … patterns of thinking.”
http://atlanta.cbslo...trol-of-speech/

 
Nothing new. They're simply trying to over-ride Citizens United.

They can try, but getting 67% approval in both houses? 75% approval by the states?

Ain't gonna happen when ~half the country is opposed to socialism and bigger government.
 
Nothing new. They're simply trying to over-ride Citizens United.

They can try, but getting 67% approval in both houses? 75% approval by the states?

Ain't gonna happen when ~half the country is opposed to socialism and bigger government.
Agreed.
 
There's no movement to override Citizens on the left.......if anything they embrace it.

If a campaign finance story is not about David Koch or Sheldon Adelson, do liberals care?
Consider the reaction to Kenneth Vogel’s important report on the winter meeting of the Democracy Alliance, the secretive organization of progressive millionaires and billionaires who finance an extraordinarily byzantine network of liberal foundations and Super PACs that operate with undisclosed “dark money.”
What reaction? Exactly. There wasn’t any.

The liberal handwringing over Citizens United is all for show. Obama reversed himself on Super PACs in 2012 just as he reversed himself on public financing in 2008.

So the upper echelon of the political party that controls the White House, the Senate, the executive bureaucracy, and is 17 seats away from a House majority is committed to a group of insanely wealthy people who avoid disclosure and accountability by indirectly funding nonprofits. Yet this same party howls that Republicans are in the pocket of wealthy individuals. If only George Soros could buy the Democrats a sense of irony.
Elizabeth Warren is a special case. She and her opponent famously signed a “People’s Pledge” to limit outside spending in the Massachusetts Senate election. But so much depends on the meanings of “spending” and “outside.” Not only is Warren linked to the Soros-affiliated think tank Demos through her daughter, who runs it, her campaign was launched with donations from the Soros family and received $2 million in assistance in the final weeks of the contest from the Harry Reid-affiliated Majority PAC. She outraised and out-spent Scott Brown. The Center for Responsive Politics found that she disclosed far less of the sources of her funding than Brown did. Yet no one can doubt she told her secret donors at the Democracy Alliance meeting that as a United States senator she would fight against the influence of the rich.

Money buys access and patronage. A New York Times review “showed that those who donated the most to Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party since he started running for president were far more likely to visit the White House than others.” The Huffington Post “found 28 individuals of ambassadorial rank who had raised a total of more than $14 million for the president.” One such ambassador, Matthew Barzun, grandson of the recently deceased historian Jacques Barzun, quit his post to raise money for Obama’s reelection and was a speaker at the Democracy Alliance’s winter meeting.
Another Times review of the administration’s relationship with utility giant Exelon “shows how familiarity has helped foster access at the upper reaches of government and how, in some cases, the outcome has been favorable for Exelon.” The administration assisted DreamWorks Animation CEO and Priorities USA donor Jeffrey Katzenberg in negotiating a deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Performance artist Will Smith felt his donations to Obama earned him the privilege to lobby the administration for rapper T.I.’s release from jail.

http://freebeacon.com/see-no-evil/
 
All you'll ever get from Washington and the Repuplicrats is lip service regarding Citizens United. Now they are free to engage in Corpratism and Crony Capitalism at will. That gravy train is unstoppable
 
Look at it as a way for Karl Rove to get money from the rich and get Republicans beat.

I get your point however please take note of the fact that Obama raised $950,000,000 versus Romney @1,054,238,130. So the point is that the left is not exactly pure as the driven snow here.
 
I wouldn't say the money spent on the campaign was for naught.

Despite losing the headline act, it still wasn't the shellacking the Dems received in 2010. Republicans still kept the house, didn't give up the filibuster in the Senate, and picked up a couple gubernatorial seats. Several of those wins were riding on the coattails of the Romney campaign.