Supreme Blunder

So the Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of eliminating corporate spending limits on political campaigns, also making it legal to donate directly to candidates or run political advertisements. Make no mistake, this is an historically bad decision. I honestly don't understand it. It's hard to believe that the majority of persons heading the highest court in the world could make such a poor decision. I've been talking with friends lately about how America is becoming progressively more ungovernable, and the numbers don't lie. Paul Krugman elaborates:

"The political scientist Barbara Sinclair has done the math. In the 1960s, she finds, 'extended-debate-related problems' — threatened or actual filibusters — affected only 8 percent of major legislation. By the 1980s, that had risen to 27 percent. But after Democrats retook control of Congress in 2006 and Republicans found themselves in the minority, it soared to 70 percent."

And if you want a visual representation check out this chart:


It's clearly getting out of hand... Maybe part of it is these, "extraordinary times," but I'm just not buying it. When the republican minority attempts to filibuster a military spending bill, considering their collective stance on the issue just a year ago, something is wrong. The only republican agenda at this point is blocking progress, regardless of the issue.

Unfortunately, the problems we're already experiencing, (corporate lobbyists controlling Washington and blocking reform), are about to get much, much worse. A lobbyist can now literally tell a politician "you're either with us, or against us, and if you're against us, we will spend unlimited dollars to make sure you don't have a job next term." The Supreme Court has given corporate America the go ahead to buy votes. This might be the most irresponsible decision I've seen the GOP make since anointing Sarah Palin, which is why I guess I shouldn't be all that surprised.