I’m very glad that the Supreme Court nullified McCain-Feingold. Had I been presentat the SOTU, I’d have said something considerably less polite than, “You lie!” Actually, I did, but I was just talking back to my TV.

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech”

So what part of that is hard to understand? I feel sorry for those who have to sit there through that duplicitous teleprompter blather and either applaud like zoo seals or just look on in stony silence like the Justices and the Generals.

However, unlike many “conservative pundits”, I also am partially sympathetic with the leftists who decry the recent decision. America is a Democracy of the Booboisie (a Mencken term) of greedy, unprincipled, hypnotized, ignoramuses who will vote at the behest of slick, moronic TV ads. The ads are in furtherance of corporatist special interests – Agribusiness, Trial Lawyers, Unions, Military Contractors, Banksters – who view the government as a giant udder to be milked. The “speech” of these ads are just tools to elect their preferred Knights Exemplar (politicians) to further the special unconstitutional influence over the general population. Compared to these tawdry TV ads, pornography looks honest and uplifting.