Dems To Free Speech: STIFLE! By Constitutional Amendment

Senate Dems, many who are well funded by George Soros, want a constitutional amendment to shut up political speech that reveals their ethical weak spots.

Shut Up Already! Senate Dems Want To Amend The Constitution To Stop Koch Brothers’ Ads

"Democratic Senators said Monday the Constitution must be amended, because people like Charles and David Koch must be stopped from flooding TV with negative ads Americans don’t want to see.

“A handful of super rich donors and giant corporations are now flooding our elections and determining entire narratives of closely contested races,” Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, said in a press conference Monday. “The American people are furious with the state of campaign finance in this country. They can’t stand the negative advertisements that are dominating the airways.”

Senator Amy Klobuchar agreed. “This Congress forgets what the people really care about,” she said. “They don’t want to see these ads. They don’t want to see this outside money.”

“These negative, poisonous, untruthful ads have just proliferated,” echoed Sen. Al Franken, and the American people “know this is wrong.”

The proposed amendment, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Tom Udall, would give Congress broad power to shape campaign finance laws. It would effectively overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and 2014 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC, which struck down laws restricting when corporations and unions can spend money on elections, and how much individuals can donate to candidates in a two-year period.

This is “the most important issue to Americans in years,” added Sen. Bernie Sanders. “If people think this is some kind of esoteric issue, not related to jobs, the economy, and wages, and women’s rights, and income and wealth inequality, and healthcare and global warming, you are deadly wrong.”

“Why do people like the Koch brother’s spend hundreds of millions of dollars?” he continued. “If you understand what they stand for, and that is to end, do away with social security, do away with medicare, do away with medicaid do away with the concept of the minimum wage, do away with the environmental protection agency — that is the struggle. They have an agenda.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse also pointed to the Koch Brothers as a reason for amending the Constitution, and accused them of coercing Republicans into giving up on climate change legislation. Before Citizens United, the Republicans had a candidate for president willing to have a climate change plan, he said, and brought a carbon regulations bill to the Senate floor. But now “the Koch brothers, the biggest polluters in this country have gotten together, and they’ve silenced them."

The Dems prefer to get their cash surreptitiously, through front organizations that tie back to their own billionaires and wall street cronies.

I haven't seen the ads which enrage the Dems. But if they had contrary ideas to push which were legitimate and appealing to the public, then they would do it; they have plenty o' cash. These days, the Dems just want to work outside the constitution but to force their opposition into constitutional prisons. Totalitarians to the bitter end.