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"STOP US BEFORE WE SIN AGAIN'.(A)
Finally, the World's Greatest Debilitating Body is set to work its will and pass the Incumbent Protection and Speech Muzzling Act. It's been nip and tuck.
Those pesky defenders of the Constitution have been intransigent. They've insisted that curbs on donations to parties and political ads just don't jibe with the First Amendment. They've picked nits over freedom of speech and the press, and the right to "petition the government for a redress of grievances."
In the end, the champions of corruption, er, rather, the foes of corruption won the day with their plaintive pleas: "Stop us before we sin again."
Which goes nicely with this claim: "It's not our fault that there's corruption. It's the system's fault."
Please.
As the economy slows, markets roil and layoffs climb, the Senate has found the courage to build huge barriers to challengers, impose price controls on broadcasters and, in the process, repeal the First Amendment.
That senators are ignorant of doing so is implausible. Why would they spend so much time and passion on language that would void the whole law if one part ...
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