{"id":3569,"date":"2014-09-14T22:43:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T05:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T22:50:54","slug":"the-maverick-corporate-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"The Maverick Corporate Lackey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Senate Tried to Overturn \u2018Citizens United\u2019 Today. Guess What Stopped Them?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/181590\/senate-tried-overturn-citizens-united-today-guess-what-stopped-them#\" target=\"_blank\">The majority of the United States Senate tried to pass a constitutional amendment that would overturn the abysmal Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court in 2010.<\/a> The vote went 54-42 with Democrats and Independents in the majority and all 42 Republicans voting to, as New Mexico Senator Mark Udall said, \u201cfilibuster this measure and instead choose to support a broken system that prioritizes corporations and billionaires over regular voters.\u201d Yep, that pretty much says it all. Among the Republicans filibustering was Arizona Senator John McCain, who not so long ago was considered a &#8216;maverick&#8217; on campaign finance reform. We&#8217;re Arizonans here at the Bucket and as such we feel we have a right to say this to Senator McCain on his actions concerning this measure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator McCain Sir, YOU SUCK!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3573\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3573\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3573\" title=\"mccaincorporatelackey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccaincorporatelackey.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Senator John McCain proves what a 'maverick' he is on campaign finance reform by voting to let corporations give unlimited funds to the corporate lackey...er...politician of their choice.\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccaincorporatelackey.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccaincorporatelackey-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arizona Senator John McCain proves what a &#39;maverick&#39; he is on campaign finance reform by voting to let corporations give unlimited funds to the corporate lackey...er...politician of their choice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the United States Senate tried to pass a constitutional amendment that would overturn the abysmal Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court in 2010. The vote went 54-42 with Democrats and Independents in the majority and all 42 Republicans voting to, as New Mexico Senator Mark Udall said, \u201cfilibuster this measure and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Maverick Corporate Lackey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,3],"tags":[355,401,628,22,20,389,27,939,938,9,941,575,21,98,942,596,577,19,738,785,940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}