The recent Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate spending in politics just may be the straw that breaks the plutocracy’s back.

Pro-democracy groups, business leaders, and elected representatives are proposing mechanisms to prevent or counter the millions of dollars that corporations can now draw from their treasuries to push for government action favorable to their bottom line. The outrage ignited by the Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission extends to President Obama, who has promised that repairing the damage will be a priority for his administration.

But what can be done to limit or reverse the effect of the Court’s decision? Here are 10 ideas…

via 10 Ways to Stop the Corporate Dominance of Politics following Ctizens United v. FEC.

1 – This one would work, but would be stymied by the two-thirds majority vote process. The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures. None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention.

2 – This would never make it out of the Senate.

3 – Ditto.

4 – Equal time clause doesn’t apply to cable networks, so unless the FCC and FEC could get a regulation changing this requirement, it simply won’t happen, and you can bet corporate media would spend millions to make sure it didn’t happen.

5 – Good idea, but it still stifles free speech with regard to the finding in Citizens United v FEC… so that’s dead.

6 – I’d like to see this happen, but like 2 and 3, it’ll never make it out of the Senate.

7 – This one is similar to 5, but it also suffers the Senate bottleneck.

8 – Good idea.

9 – Another good idea.

10 – Transparency is a good idea, but don’t count on the media informing the citizenry of anything, nor of the citizenry of getting motivated to action.