sus susan, your thoughts? i agree with jimmy. whether you agree or disagree with your amendment, it cuts it off. it says, money does not equal speech. we ve heard different proposals, they re the ones that want to weg la regulate themselves. that s a formula for disaster. look at how that turned out. and penn state did that. maybe we re just cynical at this point. no, penn state regulated itself, that s all working out so well. quae. i agree with you, it is the right thing to have this conversation. as we know, when citizens united first, the decision fest came out down, a lot of what freaked so many of us out was this idea, money as speech. but the amount of money that we know is going to be spend and the fact that we have no idea who these people are spending this money, so in theory, literally, you have corporations buying politicians. i know that there are those, that there are ways they already do that, but my god, maybe
sure how many 1%er ers are on t bridge. hundreds flooded the streets outside the new york stock exchange. we did hear from mayor bloomberg that 177 protesters have been arrested so far. seven police officers injured. meantime, on the other coast, l.a., hundreds blocked an intersection between the bank of america tower and the wells fargo plaza before police intervened. at least 20 folks in los angeles were arrested. the mega panel is with us. karen, susan, and jimmy. it appears, karen, whatever people think of the occupation that the occupation s energy two months on is surging, not diminishing. i think that s right. although i would say the one thing that i know that are on the minds of some of the occupiers, it s a little bit of what we talked about earlier in this week, is that we shouldn t get too caught up in the
i don t know if i had to do some advance holiday wishes or something. jimmy, karen, susan, see you next week. and next up here, eat your veggies, and by veggies, i mean pizza. i ll tell you about our congress s big accomplishment this week. sen co-signed her credit card - buy books, not beer! ut the second at she shut the door girl started blowing up their credit score
who has his version of an amendment, one of the constitutional scholars, and there s a lot of folks, as we know, in this conversation, but professor lessig, certainly one of the more respected. he said referring to your amendment, this proposal is just the latest verse in a very tired song. once again, the answer to the lim contributions, limit independent expenditures, limit soft money. no, no, no. before you feel victimized, this applies to the amendment we published under jimmy will wria and a lot of others. what do you say to lessig who says you need an actual plan to fix it? you can t just say this or no. it s a very hard problem to fix campaign finance as an across-the-board issue. but you can certainly go after the worst and most pernicious excesses in the campaign finance
road is not something serious. we know it s not serious if there s not a countdown clock on the television. jimmy, last word. so, tomorrow, everybody should know that the government runs out of money, so they ve got to pass a short-term continuing resolution. and next wednesday, the day before bird day, they ll have to figure out whether they re going to let the sequestration go into effect, or they re going to come up with $1.2 trillion out of $15 trillion to cut the deficit. it s a joke. it s laughable. do i think they ll do something? i bet they will do something. i bet they will come up with $1.2 to $1.5 trillion, and if they don t, they ll have to slash the department of defense. that s why they ll do it. very quick. i know you guys don t agree with me on this, but we have to be able to have an honest discussion that it is about the revenue side and the spending side. the way the conversation is happening right now is ridiculous. yes. we ll leave it on that. i think ridi