US politicians; On Sale! Buy Now!

So I thought Citizens United wasn't supposed to open the flood gates of corporate money? Wasn't that the line from the conservati­ve majority of the USSC that ruled on it as well as every other conservati­ve in the country spouting out their ass about it?

The point here, or rather what should be the point but obviously isn't, is that businesses do business as a "person" for business purposes only. Rather than listing every corporate officer by name on every transactio­n they do, they do it as a business instead. But being a "person" doesn't mean you're a citizen, or that you have the same rights as a citizen. Just ask the sorry bastards down in Gitmo.

And that's the kicker for corporatio­ns. Just because they're "people" doesn't mean they're citizens. Can they vote? I would think the primary basis of claiming citizen rights would be to be able to vote. They can not. They are not citizens, and they have NO inherent right to free speech what so ever. The people that work there can do whatever they want, the business can not. Or, again, rather, should not. But here we are, flood gates open, up to our necks in corporate influence on our national policies.

People have long claimed that US politician­s were for sale, now we know they are. All they need now is a price tag around their necks.

Is Newt out already?

I knew it was only a matter of time before Newt blew himself up, but I had hoped he would at least make it to the actual debates and bloody up the field some before he imploded.

But here we are, showing his circus contortionist training by screwing himself in the ass.

In short, he called Paul Ryan's Medicare plan "right-wing social engineering." That is a direct out of the mouths of too smart for their own good babes quote. But that wasn't enough for a pro like Newt, he had to go on a mini rant on how he would push for an individual mandate which, of course, though trumpeted at first by The Heritage Foundation, has now been sullied and dirtied by Obama's filthy black socialist hands.

This is Newts problem, he's too smart. He knows too much stuff, it makes it hard to stay on the myopic ideological talking points, especially when they don't make sense. Newt simply forgot and started talking truth and, actually, previous conservative dogma. It's hard to keep up with what they support and oppose at any given point in time.

The only way of keeping the private for profit insurance driven health care system is some form of an individual mandate. Everyone has to be included or it won't work, the costs won't go down, and it'll fall apart. This is why conservatives are now pushing so hard for state exemptions, they know if enough states opt out it won't work nationally.

So minus the individual mandate, the only other option is government health care. Conservatives need to swallow this nasty load and get it over with. Short of an individual mandate forcing the vast majority of people to buy insurance, or direct government health care, the current system will collapse.

Newt knows this, he just forgot he's not supposed to say it out loud.