McCutcheon and the Good Old Bipartisan Days

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Barring a few exceptions, it seems acceptable for establishment journalists to bemoan the influence of big money over politics. That's interesting, but it's important to examine what they're saying.

CBS Evening News (4/2/14) had veteran anchor and Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer deliver a mini-commentary about the Supreme Court's McCutcheon decision. As he told anchor Scott Pelley:

Scott, for all practical purposes, this ruling is just one more sign that we no longer have any campaign laws that really matter. More and more, the very rich are taking control of our politics. They don't control it yet, but their influence just keeps growing, and this ruling will make it easier for them.

Schieffer went on:

Relaxing previous campaign laws has already changed our politics dramatically. Instead of working to form the bipartisan coalitions that once produced the compromises that made Washington work, the emphasis now is almost solely on raising money to run attack ads…. The question is, what are we getting for all this money? Does anyone really believe Washington is working better than it used to? I don't.

http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/04/04/mccutcheon-and-the-good-old-bipartisan-days/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mccutcheon-and-the-good-old-bipartisan-days