Electile Dysfunction

Hannity grew even more Hanctimonious as he said, “I remember when the President called Sandra Fluke… what did the President say about private citizens being attacked for expressing their political views?” It’s ridiculous for Hannity to liken law student Sandra Fluke - who testified at a Congressional hearing on the importance of health insurance coverage for contraception - to the political power players that the Koch brothers are.

Okay? Let’s repeat that a few times: Obama was NOT born in Kenya. He was born in Hawaii. Not Kenya. Hawaii. And for good measure: Obama  was born in Hawaii, not Kenya. Got it? Good. Breitbart.com just landed a blockbuster story.

[Here's a new strategy! Let's call it the "UnBirther" strategy. It says that Obama was born in Hawaii, but that basically everything else about him might be a lie!  Gotta love the lengths to which the Dysfunctioners will go...]

Late last year, the Montana high court, citing the state's long history of corporate money corrupting politics, defied the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and continued enforcing the state’s 100-year old law banning corporate involvement in state elections. The Supreme Court has blocked the Montana court’s decision pending on its own determination as to whether to formally hear the case this fall. Allowing a full argument in matter could allow the Court to reconsider the merits of the Citizens United decision, which opened the doors to unlimited corporate and union involvement in American elections.

Now, attorneys for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a 100%-corporate funded lobbying group that has used the Citizens United decision to pump tens of millions of undisclosed dollars into federal elections over the last two years, is fighting to maintain the status quo. And they don’t want the justices to consider the evidence that the Citizens United decision, along with prior examples of corporate involvement in campaigns, causes corruption.

There have been a handful of truly great discoveries throughout history, monumental moments where any attempt to describe what really happened quickly gets lost in the morass of language and imagery, eventually reduced to trivial words like “epiphany” or “miracle” or “genius.”

But never before has a discovery been so monumental, so earth-changing, as the one I’ve just made. You see, I’ve discovered how to end all political polarization, how to bring us together in a never-ending sequence of kumbaya moments that will make a 1960’s Hare Krishna love fest seem like little more than a tear-gas-infused riot.

Steve Roche, a former Romney aide, helped to raise about $55.8 million from a relatively small group of Romney supporters for the political action committee, called Restore Our Future.

We got a huge response to our segment on Tuesday with The Nation's Ilyse Hogue about Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who has renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying U.S. taxes on the company’s initial public offering.

[The real questions are: How/Why did this law ever get into the tax code in the first place?]