Our conservative-leaning Supreme Court has handed environmentalists, climate change legislation and Democratic candidates in the upcoming Congressional elections a live grenade.  If you had the feeling our guys in Washington were already bought and sold, it’s only going to get worse.

Yesterday’s court ruling removes many of the recent restrictions placed on campaign spending for corporations and their dirty step children, political action groups.  The major impact will be a spluge of fact-free and entertaining political attack ads and commercials, many from faceless political action groups financed by big corporations festooned with phony patriotic names like Americans for Liberty or the Campaign for Working Families, (which does anything but).

Some of you may recall attack ad classics like the compellingly racist “Willie Horton” ads used to defeat Democrat, Michael Dukakis, or the more recently rancid “Swift Boat” ads that sank Vietnam war hero John Kerry’s presidential run (why is it always guys from Massachusetts?).  Now, in addition to the anti-environment drivel spewing out of the Fox News pantheon of mentally challenged talking heads, we can look forward to television airwaves filled with crappy, political attack ads.

Corporations fighting:  EPA clean-ups, emissions caps, limits on land use, or food and drug legislation can now pour cash directly into ads supporting their candidate or cause — and we all know, that historically, the American public just eats-up a good ad campaign – witness the sales of questionable products ranging from Pet Rocks and Amish space heaters, to the horribe Snuggie – not to mention this week’s election of the “I love my truck” candidate from, once again, Massachusetts.   The environment is in for a rocky ride.  Maybe it’s time to put down the remote, turn off the home theater system and do something about it.