Daily Topics - Wednesday April 2nd, 2014
By shawnt56
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Hour One: Backer vs. Hartmann: money is NOT speech - Dan Backer, Attorney for McCutcheon / Plus, the Hobby Lobby hypocrisy...they have sinned - Stephen Ally, The Timothy Plan
Hour Two: The war on women's paychecks - Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum
Hour Three: McCutcheon...billionaires win again - David Cobb, Move to Amend
Comments
#2
I agree with the last caller today (Apr 2), who said, about the SCOTUS decision today, that a DIFFERENT approach to amending the Constitution might work better than most already promoted. I have been considering an amendment DEFINING BRIBERY in the Constitution, which only contains the word BRIBERY once, while NOT DEFINING it.
My wording (not refined) would define BRIBERY as ANYTHING of [*] VALUE given to ANY representative of the American People constitutes the commission of BRIBERY to and for that representative.
Additional 'wordsmithing' should probably include contributions to ELECTION CAMPAIGNS (at ALL levels of Government)
Steve Pond, living near Missoula, Montana
#3
A thought for democrats in november:
While I agree wholeheartedly that the democrats should embrace the ACA and be proud that they were a part of it, it's not enough. If democrats want ANY chance of taking back the house and increasing their majority in the senate they need youth to vote. While affordable health insurance is extremely important, most young people could care less about it because they feel invincible and don't think they will ever get sick.
Therefore, if dems really want to energize youth to vote in a non-election year, they should tailor part of their campaigns to an issue young people actually care about: LEGALIZING MARIJUANA! This would do two things: give a huge part of your base a reason to show up at the polls AND you put the republicans in a corner because you can't argue small government one minute and turn around and oppose a measure that, by definition, DECREASES THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT!
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