Tuesday, May 27, 2014

He’s On To Us

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told some folks that Democrats are trying to repeal the First Amendment.

Cruz was speaking to pastors at a Family Research Council conference when he warned that Democrats were moving to quash political speech and “muzzle” pastors and their communities, according to video of a portion of Cruz’s speech posted online by Right Wing Watch.

“I’m telling you, I’m not making this up,” he said as the audience offscreen gasped. “Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-N.Y.] has announced the Senate Democrats are scheduling a vote on a constitutional amendment to give Congress the plenary power, the unlimited authority to regulate political speech. Because elected officials have decided they don’t like it when the citizenry has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done.”

Cruz was referring to a proposed constitutional amendment from Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) that would reverse recent Supreme Court rulings invalidating campaign finance limits, including Citizens United and McCutcheon. Schumer said the Senate would vote this year on the constitutional amendment, which seeks to capitalize on the unpopularity of the Citizens United decision in an election year.

Rats.  Now we’ll have to come up with some other plan to keep the Koch brothers from buying the next election.

It’s ironic that Sen. Cruz would bring this up in front of the Family Research Council, a group whose very existence is founded on the belief that certain people don’t deserve all the rights guaranteed under the Constitution and who raise a shitload of money to advance their point of view.

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  1. Cruz was speaking to pastors at a Family Research Council conference

    Interesting that he presented the Citizens United-inspired tweak, intended to constrain the use of money in campaigns, as restrictions on free speech – to a bunch of preachers, who by law aren’t supposed to engage in politicking in the first place.

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