Yesterday I told you that Supreme Court was likely to issue its decision on the campaign finance case Citizens United v. FEC. Well the Supreme Court did issue a ruling - a ruling in support of the endangered concept of free speech. In a 5-to-4 decision, it says that the government lacks a legitimate basis to restrict campaign expenditures by companies. In other words, it scrapped major portions of McCain-Feingold campaign law. That's good news.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion, "The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether." Score one for the First Amendment.

Now starts the whining. Democrats can't wrap their brains around this one. They are perfectly willing to accept Supreme Court decisions like Kelo v. New London, because that essentially empowers the government. But when it comes to protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and empowering the private sector rather than government ... n a lot of Democrats to stand up and fight for that.

Barack Obama, for example, is extremely upset with the decision. He warns that he will work with Congress to come up with a "forceful response" to this ruling.

Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen went as far as to say that the ruling is "un-American."

Senator Chuck Schumer says that he will hold hearings to figure out how Congress can still limit corporate spending on elections, despite the Supreme Court decision. Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen says that he will do the same in the House.

And Ralph Nader's group by the name of Public Citizen has called for a Constitutional Amendment! The group wants an amendment "specifying that for-profit corporations are not entitled to First Amendment protections, except for freedom of the press ... today's decision so imperils our democratic well-being, and so severely distorts the rightful purpose of the First Amendment, that a constitutional corrective is demanded."

OK ... let me tell you what the Imperial Democrats are so worried about. Up until now they had the edge in campaign donations. Take a large corporation. The unionized employees of that corporation were free to donate to Democrats ... just as their shop stewards and union leaders suggested they do. The company itself? Prohibited. The Democrats are afraid that large businesses that are traditionally more attuned to the pro-business Republicans than they are to the pro-union Democrats are going to tip the balance of power here. Check out this link: It's OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics. You can see where the political contributions from the top 50 industries go. Check out the Top 50, the Top Republican Industries and the Top Democrat Industries. Now this is money donated by the people who work in these industries .. not the companies themselves.

Just a few high(low)points from the list:

Top contributor overall:

Lawyers and Law Firms. 83% of their contributions to Democrats.

Top Republican Industry:

Health Professionals. 63% of their contributions to Democrats. (That's right ... even the top contributor to Republicans gives more to Democrats,)

Top Democrat Industries:

Lawyers and Law Firms again.

OK .. now you see why the Democrats are upset. Glad I could help out here. More numbers on the list during the information overload hour.