Outgoing Democrat Congressman: We're Descending into Fascism or Something

I'm assuming he prefers our quick slide into socialism instead.

In a wide-ranging interview before he prepares to leave the House of Representatives, Hudson Valley Congressman John Hall warned that the nation could quickly descend into Fascism if more is not done to curb the influence of corporate money in politics.

Speaking about the Citizen's United decision, which allowed unregulated flow of cash into campaign coffers, Hall said, "I learned when I was in social studies class in school that corporate ownership or corporate control of government is called Fascism. So that's really the question— is that the destination if this court decision goes unchecked?"

Hall said that the flow of corporate dollars is why he and the Democrats lost control of Congress.

Uh, not really, dickhead. If you had the slightest clue you'd understand it was runaway spending and unemployment. But nobody ever accused Hall of being too bright.

"The country was bought," he said. "The extremist, most recent two appointees to the Supreme Court, who claimed in their confirmation hearings before the Senate that they would not be activist judges, made a very activist decision in that it overturned more than a century of precedent. And as a result there were millions of extra dollars thrown into this race."

The most recent Supreme Court appointees were Kagan and Sotomayor, just for the record. Like I said, he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.