By Steve Feazel, Staff Writer

The election of Scott Brown combined with a Supreme Court decision has Liberal Democrats reeling in dismay.

The week of January 17 served up devastating days for Liberal Democrats. It seemed to start harmlessly enough with President Obama making a trip to stump for Democrat senate candidate Margaret Coakley. However his jokes about pickup trucks helped Scott Brown pick up votes that gave him a Massachusetts senate seat that had been in the Kennedy family for some 56 years. If the election of Scott Brown on January 19th was the political shot heard around the world, then the Supreme Court decision that followed two days later was the bomb that rocked the world of liberal candidates with shock and awe as they face to the 2010 elections.

In the case Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court with a 5 to 4 vote granted a corporation the right to use its funds to run ads that criticize a candidate for federal office within thirty days of a primary election and within sixty days a general election. (1) Citizens United had produced a documentary critical of Hillary Clinton during her presidential campaign and the Federal Communications Commission denied it distribution over various broadcasting outlets. The Supreme Court saw this as censorship and a violation of the First Amendment. Its decision took out the worst censorship provision in the McCain-Feingold law that was designed to regulate money in politics. (2)

Democrats despised the ruling because they wanted to keep corporations from influencing voters as elections approached. Having unions and groups formed and supported by George Soros dumping unlimited cash in ads during campaigns was acceptable political action. On the other hand, those “mean, evil, greedy corporations,” you know the ones, big businesses that provide jobs and products at prices that has given America the highest standard of living in the world, were not to be equal when it came to the political battlefield. The Supreme Court said no way can corporations be denied their First Amendments rights and be censored from the public airways. It was a matter of freedom of speech.

The playing field has been leveled and Liberals don’t like level playing fields for elections. Justice Stevens wrote the majority view and said, “When government seeks to use its full power, including criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.” (3)

New York Senator, Chuck Schumer called the court’s decision “un-American.” (4) Court decisions that legalize the killing of unborn children must seem more American to him. President Obama said, “The Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics.” (5) This must mean that unions, trial lawyers, the Hollywood Left, and a host of “community organizations” are not special interest groups.

In recent political campaigns, corporations were forced to bring a knife to a gun fight. The Supreme Court has now given them the right to tote heat and load up. If money is the ammunition, then one thing is for sure, the corporations have a surplus stockpile and the Liberals know this. Factoring in that the Liberals have made corporations their targets as they seek to advance their progressive redistribution of wealth agenda, one can see why Liberal Democrats look with horror at the approaching 2010 elections.

Scott Brown picked up a senate seat with his pickup in a state that is bluer than a New England Patriot’s home jersey, and now corporations can commission a cash-loaded convoy of semis to roll down the 2010 campaign trail. Looks like a good year for trucks and a bad year for Liberal Democrats.

Sources

1. Klukowski, Ken, “Founding Fathers Smiling After Supreme Court Campaign Finance Ruling,” FOXNews.com, Jan. 22, 2010.

2. Klukowski

3. Mears, Bill, “Supreme Court eases restrictions on corporate campaign spending,” CNN.com, Jan. 24, 2010.

4. Klukowski

5. Mears