Pelosi: Amend the First Amendment

[Geee]

CNSnews:

 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals.

The First Amendment says in part: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."

Television and radio networks, newspapers, publishing houses, movie studios and think tanks, as well as political action committees, are usually organized as, or elements of, corporations.

Pelosi said the Democrats' effort to amend the Constitution is part of a three-pronged strategy that also includes promoting the DISCLOSE Act, which would increase disclosure requirements for organizations running political ads, and “reducing the role of money in campaigns” (which some Democrats have said can be done through taxpayer funding of campaigns).

[RandyM]

If she is for it, then I must be against it.

[SrWoodchuck]

Someone needs to give her the "right to remain silent." Along with a slew of others.......

[nickydog]

If she is for it, then I must be against it.

 

That says it all.

[raygun]

Virtually every response is wrong-headed.

 

What needs to happen is ALL union's donating to PAC and directly involved in the political process should be taxed as corporate entities and the highest taxation level. Each corporate entity is limited to $2000 maximum contribution to the candidate of their choice.