President’s right hand men continue to defend his erroneous and misleading statement.
Guest Post by Bill Zwerger
In response to Chief Justice John Roberts astute pronouncement on the President’s ill-timed and misinformed tirade against the SCOTUS’ Citizens United v. FEC decision, made during the State of the Union address, Obama advisor David Axelrod and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made separate appearences on Sunday morning news programs to defend Mr. Obama, offering justification in terms of both the content and appropriateness of his nefarious remarks.
What these two dunderheads, along with so many others in the MSM, fail to grasp is that, as Justice Alito made perfectly clear immediately following the aforementioned remark, HE WAS WRONG.
From Obama’s SOTU address: “Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.” Of course he conveniently failed to mention that unions, in particular SEIU, already exercise this valuable campaign finance tool.
More importantly, while the decision does provide corporations the ability to make campaign contributions directly to a candidate, what it absolutely does not do, but what former law “professor” Obama alleged that it did, was allow foreign companies the same unfettered access to our political process.
This, and only this, was what Justice Alito was justifiably showing his disapproval of.
If he was at all interested in facts instead of biased rhetoric (yeah right,), Mr. Obama should have noticed this most important contextual point.
From cnn.com: “The court’s opinion very carefully said it was not deciding the issue with regard to foreign entities.”
And yet the Laurel and Hardy of Sunday morning talk shows didn’t let a little thing like the truth stop them from prattling on in a contrived attempt to run interference for their wrong-once-again boss man. Then again, why should this situation be any different?
One can only hope that somewhere down the road we’ll hear Robert and David mutter under their collective breaths as they waddle off into political obscurity, “this is another fine mess you’ve gotten us into.”
