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how strong a signal, peter, about campaign finance laws is this court sending? i think it s a mistake to interpret it too heavily as a very strong signal. one of the things we know about john roberts and the roberts court is they like narrow decisions that don t have really big, sweeping impacts. i think that is what we re going to see out of this. part of what they re saying is, well, if you were able in the past to give to 18 candidates, give the maximum amount to 18 candidates, is there a big difference between giving the maximum amount to 18 candidates or 19 or 20? i m not sure there is, especially for the folks who are already giving to the maximum number of candidates. let s pivot here and talk about what seems to be happening inside the gop right now. republicans, angela, may not have totally abandoned their hopes of repealing the affordable care act. but louisiana governor bobby jindal seems to be saying replace not just repeal. take a listen.
soon as somebody files this kind of lawsuit and gets to the high court, is a case that would undo limits completely, undo any kind of cap for how much you can give to a campaign, give to a candidate. right now, you can do that anonymously, give that to a 501 group or something. there is interest out there in letting anyone like a shelton adelson or a warren koch give money. john roberts was citing his own precedent in arguing that it was time to revisit some of the ways we view speech as money. there is grist there for a decision that would totally wipe away the limits. this one doesn t really do that. peter, the new york times, picking up on what dave was talking about with regards to the citizens united states the new york times quoting, according to experts in election law, there is no reason to think that the march toward deregulating election spending will stop with this ruling.
i m certainly for repealing the obamacare law. but we need to show the american people, we ha ve got a better p on health care costs he outlines this 26-page plan to repeal obamacare with the sort of republican program. is bobby jindal trying to position himself as the ideas guy for 2016? is that what we re seeing? i not only think we re seeing that from bobby jindal, i also think we re seeing something old from them. their original strategy was to repeal and replace. however, when it got time to go to the negotiating table, they were fresh out of ideas. in this plan, jindal suggests there should be a block grant system. those are terrible and democrats aren t going to support them. it s not really a new idea here. the other unfortunate thing for him is with the cpac plan he placed tenth. peter, i saw you nodding in the affirmative.