The term Super PAC has been everywhere since the Supreme Court's decision on the "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" case. Stephen Colbert's jokes on the whole saga has also been all over the Internet. I just watched this bit («Slow Jamming the News») on Yahoo! Video warning President Barack Obama.
Personally, I like the idea that corporations are allowed to spend money on elections. I know it is a dangerous thing. But look at where they are spending their money: staffing their champaign, boat loads of ads on TV and print media. I think this is a great way for the money to be pumped into the economy. Don't you?
Here is a little secret: I don't watch TV. No one watches TV in our household. I don't have a phone in the traditional sense either, so I am not taking their calls. So I want them to spend more money on those things: The more the merrier. A billion is far from enough.
(I have not visited Yahoo! for some time. They seem to have got some pretty good stuff up there, even Bill Maher.)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
2. A Helping Hand
Today is the Michigan primary. I walked into the polling station, there were no other voters. I was informed that I had the choice of picking a ballot for the Democrats or one for the Republicans. I looked at the sample, the Democrat one was really boring: It had Barack Obama as the only candidate for president and Joe Biden as his running mate. So I looked at the Republican sample, which was much more interesting: It had more than a dozen names on the sheet. So I went for the Republican one.
I actually thought long and hard between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum: Romney seemed to at least want to appear to be somewhat moderate that he deserved a bit of sympathy; On the other hand, the Republicans as a whole seemed to want to go to the extreme that they deserved a hand to help pushing them over the edge. These days, the Republicans seem to bend over backwards to get everything their way. I am getting sick of them all by the day. In the end, the evil side of me got the upper hand. So I decided to land a helping hand.
I admit that I am a heavily biased (against stupidity) independent. But that doesn't mean I am never stupid myself. Now I'll wait and see: I will be against whoever that gets the nomination. If this one does, then I will have to work harder to defeat him.
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