"Justice Samuel Alito let a pained expression pass his face and muttered, "Not true." His reaction to Pres. Barack Obama's demagogic attack on the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision aptly summed up the entire State of the Union address.
Obama warned that the decision striking down restrictions on corporate spending opened "the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections." But the court explicitly left untouched a statute that bans election spending by foreign corporations, even "indirectly." There isn't even a "loophole" for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign firms, as the White House claimed in damage-control mode.
Since Massachusetts, the Left has been badly disoriented. It can't process the fact that the cradle of contemporary liberalism elected a Republican in a contest that was a referendum on health care. So, it has thrown up a thick cloud of rationalizations and delusion from which Obama emerged briefly to man his teleprompters before the nation.
He spoke for more than an hour, but the quick gloss might have been, "It's not my fault, and please ignore your lying eyes."
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