Like A Comic Book Villain

In the launch of this new Republican “Super PAC,” you get a taste of why — thanks to Citizens United and an emasculated Federal Elections Commission — 2012 will be the biggest election free-for-all since at least the Watergate-era reforms. Responding to watchdogs’ complaints that his new Super PAC is illegal even on the now-virtually-lawless campaign finance frontier, Republican uber-lawyer James Bopp growls (I’m imagining the chewed stubb of a cigar dangling from his lips): “The Supreme Court doesn’t care, and I don’t care, and the [FEC] doesn’t care. No one that matters cares.”