McCain: "Clean Government" Better Than 1st Amendment"

[kpete]

John McCain: "Clean Government" Better Than 1st Amendment
Listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LPM_iYVoy4&eurl=

[stray cat]

1. He wants a government elected by people not money

The 1st amendment is the excuse given to unlimited money in campaigns and unlimited lobbying. Lobbying reform violates 1st amendment speech so it shouldn't be done. In this case, I agree with McCain I want restrictions in campaign financing and lobbying even if people claim it violates the free speech of people with big money. I think too much money violates the free speech of average Americans who don't have the financial backing to compete.

[greekspeak]

2. Tomorrow he will be out schmoozing with his corporate pimps

Just watch. Whatever he says here that sounds good is coming out the side of his mouth he uses for non-Bushies. Tomorrow he will be out kissing corporate and christo-fascist butt. Then the next day it will be back with this fake feel good crap. He and Joe Liebermann were made for each other.

[Jade Fox]

4. That "violates free speech" theory.....

always sounds utterly ludicrous to me. Someone worked long and hard at a Right-wing think tank to come up with that red herring.

I agree with you--those with loads of money prevent the rest of us from having equal influence.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. "quote first ammendment rights"

didn't sound like he said:

"Clean Government" Better Than 1st Amendment

to me.

and no... I'm not a McCain supporter; I detest the man.

[Rose Siding]

5. Here's how serious McCain is about "clean government"-

snip>
After appearing to falter Thursday, the House of Representatives is once again poised to pass a new package of lobbying restrictions, thanks largely to the efforts of an alliance of Republican moderates. Nothing in the bill, however, would stop those same Republican moderates from continuing to court corporate lobbyists with some unusually explicit invitations to lunch.

For $5,000, a lobbyist can join lawmakers and staff members of the alliance, the Republican Main Street Partnership, for a lunchtime policy briefing by an outside expert. For $15,000, the lobbyist can attend four lunches, two of them with briefings by an outside expert and two with briefings from members of Congress.

And for $25,000, the lobbyist can have three lunch briefings with lawmakers, not to mention V.I.P. seating for eight at a black-tie dinner for the moderates' coalition.
....
Its fund-raising tactics are especially notable because the group includes Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut, two lawmakers who have led the calls to tighten lobbying and campaign finance rules.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/washington/30mainstreet.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[thecrow]

6. I'm no expert, but it sounds like our govmint is for sale! nt