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By E. J. Dionne | Monday, September 7, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…President Obama’s health-care speech on Wednesday will be only the second most consequential political moment of the week. Judged by the standard of an event’s potential long-term impact on our public life, the most important will be the argument before the Supreme Court (on the same day, as it happens) about a case that, if decided wrongly, could surrender control of our democracy to corporate interests.

This sounds melodramatic. It’s not. The court is considering eviscerating laws that have been on the books since 1907 and 1947 — in two separate cases — banning direct contributions and spending by corporations in federal election campaigns. Doing so would obliterate precedents that go back two and three decades….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601188_pf.html