The Supreme Court could let loose restrictions on the influence of money in politics after it hears Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission today. If corporations are allowed to spend from their own money on elections -- rather than with political action committees -- it would unleash an age of special-interest politics like we've never seen.  Who might benefit from that? Republicans. Corporations are non-living, non-breathing, legal fictions. They feel no pain. They don't need clean water to drink, fresh air to breathe, or healthy food to consume. They can live forever. They were never meant to be equal with people. Our founding fathers would be rolling in their graves...