Now that money is free speech and corporations are people, foreign owners of multinational corporations can have a louder voice in American elections than the American people. If you think the historic Republican gains in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 were the result of vast changes in voter preferences, think again. It was all about sleazy corporate politics. In 2008, prior to the Citizens United decision, PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry trade association that includes foreign-owned corporations, spent $200,000 on political campaigning. During the 2010 elections, it spent $9.5 million. The corporate-sponsored U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest political …