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Harry Reid & Democrats Seek to alter First Amendment’s Free Speech Protection

Suzanne Hamner 9 mins ago

What is it with Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and his obsession with the Koch brothers? Reid's obsession has infiltrated Senate Democrats to the point Democrats announced they would take steps in the next month in order to change the First Amendment's free speech protection. The rationale for this step to overturn the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedence is to give Congress the authority to "limit who can spend money in elections and how much they are allowed to spend."

To understand this horrendous proposal, one must look at the atmosphere in the Senate. Sen. Reid has basically changed the rules in the Senate and exercised strict control over this branch of Congress, "using complex parliamentary maneuvers," to block the chance for amendments to be introduced first on a bipartisan energy efficiency bill and now tax cuts. Republicans filibustered a tax cut package on Thursday to protest the Democrat's denial of a chance for amendments to be offered. So, Republicans are not being given a chance to offer or add amendments on bills before the Senate due to Reid's strategy and Democratic monopoly while Democrats, especially Reid, accuse Republicans of wanting amendments with debate on issues not related to the bill at hand. Republican filibustered the tax cut bill saying representative government is in jeopardy.

Now, since when did Congress ever care about limiting amendments to bills when those amendments had nothing to do with the bill? The bill being debated concerned tax cuts, which Republicans filibustered due to Reid's lock-down on the Senate. Republicans wanted to withdraw Obamacare subsidies from congressional staff members, repeal a tax on medical devices that was included in Obamacare, and force a vote on building of the Keystone XL pipeline.

According to Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), "At least you have to give them marks for consistency. They are already muzzling our constituents by blocking amendments. Now, they want to muzzle them even more by changing the Bill of Rights. This is completely out of control."
Meanwhile, Reid accuses Republicans of stalling and blocking the Senate in order to reward the Koch brothers.

Reid stated, "Amending our Constitution is not something any of us should take lightly, but the flood of special interest money in our American Democracy is one of the glaring threats our system of government has ever faced."

Continuing his rant and obvious obsession, Reid stated, "There is absolutely no question the Koch brothers are in a category of their own. No one else is pumping money into the shadowy campaign organizations and campaigns like they are. There isn't even a close second. They are doing this to promote issues that make themselves richer."

Reid contends that his hand was forced in this manner by "heavy spending, reportedly more than $100 million planned, by Koch-related organizations this year.

Reid, and those Democrats who support violating the Constitution's limit on Congress making laws curtailing the First Amendment's provision of free speech, say that government should decide "who can spend money in elections and how much they are allowed to spend." Not surprisingly, this would apply to the average American, candidates, special interest and pressure groups. Of course, everyone can believe the Democrats would make the law equally binding to all.

Didn't the Democrats pass Obamacare without one single Republican vote and without even reading the bill? Wasn't their mantra, "We have to pass it to find out what's in it," blasted all over the airwaves by none other than California Democrat Nancy Pelosi? Would anyone dare buy into the altruism being peddled to limit an individual's God-given right to freedom of speech?

While "Dirty" Harry is whining about the Koch brothers to any and everyone who will listen, he conveniently leaves out the shadowy campaign organizations and campaigns that George Soros pours countless millions toward. But of course, you can bet that Reid and his Democrat stooges would somehow make sure that only conservative organizations were affected. In order to garner support for this attack on free speech, Reid is using his obsession with the Koch brothers – an obsession that is bordering on insanity.

Reid will blame everything on the Koch brothers from buying Republican votes to the elastic being too tight in his underwear. If the grass dies on his lawn, you can bet it's the evil Koch brothers causing a drought through weather manipulation. When his food is under-cooked at his favorite restaurant, it's because the Koch brothers infiltrated the kitchen. And, somehow or another, if massive World War breaks out, Reid will someone pull the Koch brothers card. Reid will somehow find a way to blame the Koch brothers for anything and everything to further his own agenda.

So, in order to stop the evil of the Koch brothers, never mind that George Soros is probably just as bad or worse, Reid is willing to lawlessly violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution to limit an activity upheld as free speech by the Supreme Court – the right of every American to contribute as much money as they can afford to the candidate of their choice. In Reid's opinion, along with his Democrat supporters, the government should be telling all Americans who can contribute money, who can't and how much they can contribute.

Is it true that many of our representatives are being bought and paid for by special interest groups, pressure groups and by millionaires such as Soros and the Koch brothers? No one has to be a rocket scientist to answer that question. Of course, this is happening at all levels of government. One can be sure that Harry "Vegas Mafia" Reid pockets his fair share. However, the answer to the problem is not by violating an individual's God-given right to free speech which includes monetary campaign contributions.

It is an excuse brought forth by Reid to further engage in lawless, criminal behavior against the American public. The attack on the First Amendment would not be limited to monetary contributions regarding political campaigns by individuals or groups. Why stop there once you've gotten your finger into the pie? The Democrats wouldn't and then Republicans, trying to outdo the Democrats, would start their own addendum to limit the free speech. But, politicians are like bottom-less pits – nothing fills them up – so further limitations on free speech would be forth-coming until eventually, there will be no free speech. The same could be said with the other provisions Congress is not allowed to regulate in the First Amendment.

All the while, these politicians would be pandering rhetoric to Americans reassuring the public that free speech and individual rights are supported as long as there are limits on money contributions, ad nauseum, etc. Remember, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. Period. No one is taking that away from you."

While changing the Constitution requires an amendment proposal and then ratification, it has been done in the past with income tax (16^th amendment) and the prohibition (18^th amendment) limiting the freedom of Americans to keep their earnings safe from the federal government or engage in the partaking of an alcoholic beverage. The 18^th Amendment was repealed while the 16^th has remained. More importantly, Americans have seen an erosion of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth amendments by the very government the Constitution limited from imposing on individual and states' rights. If a change to the First Amendment is usurped, the official fall of the others, especially the Second, is not far behind.

Naturally, a Constitutional amendment would be hinged on three quarters of the States ratifying such nonsense as abridging free speech. But then, is it nonsense considering the atmosphere in some State governments? Connecticut and their gun registration is a good example of a violation of a Constitutional amendment. Considering the lawlessness of those in the federal government, why risk taking it to the states at all? With their unconstitutional alphabet agencies running the show and already infringing on rights, further infringement is a stroke of the pen and/or phone call away.
However, what should be remembered is these representatives who accept money from Soros, special interest groups or the Koch brothers have a choice. They don't have to accept the contributions from those with agendas; they choose to do so. They choose to do so for various reasons, but the fact remains that they choose it. If in return it means sliding in an addendum to the bill, giving a contributor a modest government job through appointment or casting a vote for a bill to benefit their contributors, they choose to do that in order to remain in their comfortable position, backed by millionaires and special interest while betraying their constituents.

So, while Harry Reid obsesses with the Koch brothers, everyone in American should know by now that both sides of the aisle take contributions from shadowy campaign organizations and campaigns by receiving funds from the millionaire elites and special interest groups in exchange for favors. This is not how it was intended to be nor how it should be. It is what is happening. The solution is not an abridgment of free speech as Reid would contend.
Reid's obsession is fueling a fire that has swept through the Democrats causing this knee-jerk reaction intended only to be directed at the opposition – not toward themselves. Would "Dirty" Harry cut his nose off to spite his face? Of course not; he just has to stop those evil Koch brothers by any means necessary.

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Jack Abramoff Exclusive: Harry Reid Strikes Again

by Jack Abramoff, The 1776 Coalition | published on May 16, 2014

Yippee!
Liberals throughout the nation are celebrating today. Their daily national newsletter, otherwise known as The Washington Post, proudly announced this morning that things are looking up for the Democrats’ quest to retain control of the United States Senate in this year’s election. The Post’s sagacious political forecasting model had, until today, predicted an 82% chance that the Republicans would seize control of that august legislative body. Thanks to a Democratic surge – a turn-around, by golly! – the Republicans now only have a 77% chance to take over. Wahoo!
Dear Liberals: please get a grip. A 77% chance of losing the Senate is not a good thing. For you, that is. It means your candidates are likely to be wiped out in November, unless an asteroid wipes us all out first, or some new Bond-like weapon fries the brains of the millions of Americans who have had enough of the party of the donkey.
If the Democrats’ fortunes do not reverse, the rest of us will get a substantial bonus: we won’t have to endure the daily exploits of their senate leader, Harry Reid. Now, that’s a reason to cheer.
The people of Nevada must be angry that the rest of the nation refuses to legalize prostitution, or something, since they continually re-elect Dirty Harry and foist him on the rest of us. If they only had the good sense to have put in place any one of the myriad of challengers who tried to defeat the most corrupt man in the U.S. Senate, we would all be spared the outrages he provokes. This politician – who isn’t qualified to run a gas station – has imperiously ruled over Capitol Hill for far too long. Since Nevada won’t do anything about it, with the grace of the Almighty, perhaps the rest of the nation will rise up together and kick the bum out.
Reid’s latest outrage is his shameless and almost comical attempt to use the firing of Jill Abramson from her perch running the New York Times -Democratic Party newsletter, New York version – to push his mendacious “pay equity” legislation.


Abramson and her former publication have apparently been having a row for quite some time. Her colleagues describe her as a fairly typical media celebrity: gruff with her associates, dismissive of her underlings – which, to her, is everyone – and very impressed with her own credentials. Upon being terminated, she announced that the paper had let her go because she had the temerity to demand equal pay for equal work. While it is hardly a stretch to imagine that the New York Times, like so many other hypocritical liberal bastions, including the Obama White House, is paying their female employees less than their male employees, according to knowledgeable sources, pay inequity was hardly the reason Ms. Abramson got the boot.
The media reporter from New Yorker magazine tasked with following this liberal dust-up, Ken Auletta, reports that Ms. Abramson’s inability to get along with co-workers, and her bosses, was the primary reason she was terminated.
So, why would Harry Reid jump into this? If Rupert Murdock were to fire Roger Ailes, creator of Fox News, and Ailes would claim that Murdock hated conservatives, does anything think we’d see Ted Cruz or Mitch McConnell take to the floor of the Senate to use the brouhaha to push for tax cuts? Of course not. That is strategically imbecilic, as well as beneath the dignity of the Senate.
But, for Dirty Harry, “beneath the dignity of the Senate” is standard operating procedure. Almost everything he does is beneath the dignity of the Senate. Heck, his actions are usually beneath the dignity of a Nevada brothel!
Reid is trying to contort the firing of a female liberal by a liberal group to push a bill that would impale the free market and imperil our economy. A decent Senator Majority Leader, like any decent person, would stay out of Ms. Abramson’s troubles and not drag her and the liberal cabal into greater ignominy, let alone promote bone-headed legislation guaranteed to further erode our capacity to compete in the world economy.
But a decent Senator Majority Leader we don’t have. Maybe we will come the first Tuesday in November!

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Unreal: Democrats Screen Anti-Koch Film at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center


Daniel Doherty | May 21, 2014






Apparently slingin’ rhetorical arrows at the Koch brothers from the Senate floor isn’t working out all that well. So you could say Congressional Democrats are stepping up their game


Serious question: What surprised you most? The fact that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi screened an anti-Koch documentary at the Capitol Visitor Center last night of all places or that “Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition” is a real film? Actually, don’t answer that question. If you’ve been paying close attention to the Senate Majority Leader’s incoherent mutterings finely-crafted speeches lately, neither one of these things should really surprise you:

The show must go on — unless it breaks congressional rules.
Rep. Candice Miller, the chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, wrote to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Monday saying a scheduled film screening of an anti-Koch brothers movie in the Capitol Visitor Center is violating House and Senate rules.
The screening for “Koch Brothers Exposed: 2014 Edition” is scheduled for Tuesday evening and both Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will participate in a question and answer session for the film.
But, in letter obtained by POLITICO, Miller (R-Mich.) wrote that she has “several serious concerns” that using the Capitol Visitor Center for the film “may cross the line into partisan politics.”
Rules created by the House and Senate committees charged with administration of the Capitol complex state that “no audio visual presentations in the CVC may premiere, preview, showcase, or publicize a film.”

“We cannot hold partisan political rallies or fundraisers on the grounds of the Capitol, or within its walls. Our work in this hallowed building must solely be in the interests of the American people and not into the interests of any political cause,” Miller wrote.

A Pelosi spokesperson disagreed. She argued that the film was not “screened” in the traditional sense, but rather "shown" in “clips” at a press conference where these types of activities are legal. Sure.
Meanwhile, progressive billionaire Tom Steyer recently gave the Senate Majority PAC (read: Senate Democrats) a cool $5 million. Remember, though, that’s a “clean” donation. Why? Because it will go towards keeping the Koch brothers in check -- that is, from “trying to buy” our democracy, or whatever.



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