Excerpts from an email I just got from Public Citizen regarding the Senates action on the constitutional amendment to end corporations as people.: 54 U.S. senators just voted to pass the amendment. Of course, the amendment did not get the 67 affirmative votes today that it will ultimately need for passage. Right now, I’m not sure you could get two-thirds of the current Senate to agree that the sky is blue. The Koch Brothers would create a bogus nonprofit, with a misleading name like Americans for Sky Freedom, to funnel undisclosed millions from dirty energy corporations and executives to politicians who would deny the blueness of the sky, disputing the scientific consensus around light dispersion. Ted Cruz would take to the Senate floor to preposterously allege that deeming the sky blue would prevent anyone from ever saying that anything else is any other color. And Mitch McConnell and John Boehner would not allow any of their far-right charges to admit that the sky is blue unless such an admission were couched in a bill throwing out Obamacare. Telling! It is exactly what would happen, and it points sharply at the ubiquitous intellectual dishonesty in government. © 2014 Public Citizen • 1600 20th Street, NW / Washington, D.C. 20009 • unsubscribe
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:06:59 +0000
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