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MARK HEMINGWAY: House ?shreds our constitution for raw, ugly, partisan gain? by vote of 219-206?

By Glenn Reynolds

MARK HEMINGWAY: House ?shreds our constitution for raw, ugly, partisan gain? by vote of 219-206. “So unions now get nearly unrestricted, undisclosed political spending. Further, the restrictions in the DISCLOSE Act only cut one way ? against business. If you took TARP funds as a business, express political advocacy is now verboten. So GM has very limited first amendment rights, but even though arguably primary beneficiary of the auto bailout was the United Auto Workers union which got government garunteed billions directly as a result of the TARP funding ? UAW can spend almost whatever it pleases, and it has a history of spending millions on Democratic campaigns. Further, under the DISCLOSE Act if a company has more than $7 million in government contracts, it has no right to political speech. But public sector unions can spend millions of recycled tax dollars campaigning for Democrats, no problem.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).