The recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission just struck down even the veneer of a pretense that there were limits on what corporations could contribute to election campaigns. It totally ignored the reality that money is power and power corrupts.

So I guess we need a new Constitutional Amendment that very clearly states that Corporations are NOT people under the Constitution and have only the rights specifically granted them by Congress or the states which charter them, and that ONLY actual living flesh and blood people are eligible to participate in the political process.

In the meantime, read up on what corporate contributions are made to those who vote against your interests, and contact those companies and tell them you are taking your business elsewhere.

I haven’t written much lately. Not that I was apathetic. It was that I was so disgusted with the PigFest that the Health Care bills (aka the insurance industry bailout instead of the insured citizens bailout) had become that anything I wrote about it would just have been one long string of curses.

Amazingly enough, the Republican Senator from Massachusetts seems to have awakened some common sense in President Obama. This afternoon he called for a scaled down health care bill to cover the following:

• Limit the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to people with medical problems
• Allow young adults to stay on their parents’ policies
• Help small businesses and low-income people pay premiums
• Change Medicare to encourage payment for quality care instead of quantity

If we just add tort reform (in a separate bill, let’s not run up the page count again) so that we could let doctors just practice medicine and not have to practice law as well, we could take care of all the “DUH”s that should have been voted into law last February and already be in effect.

Now let’s see if the Republicans are capable of doing anything besides playing “You can’t win”.