Buckley v. Valeo and Wall Street Collapse

Does the issue of "Free Speech for Sale have anything to do with the current credit crisis ? WHAT? Of course!!!!! How does one get the members of congress or an administration to relax or eliminate oversight rules? How does one get an admistration or a congressional oversight committee to relax the implimetation of oversight? "All the President's Men " said it. "Follow the money." The persons with the most money and the determoination to do it will inject itself or oneself in the political process. There is an equation that you and I can take for granted; we don't have to "prove" it. The more money you inject in the process the more access you can secure. Yes this is an exercise in "free speech" according to our Supreme Court . It is also , quite rightly the constitutional exercise of a citizen's right to petition the government. But does there come a point where your purchase of "free speech" so crowds out another citizen's right to free speech so as to destroy the latter's right to free speech? Is that the way it is? can we do anything about it? Should we do anything about it ?