Sweet, delicious and entirely appropriate: lefty bloggers file FEC complaint aginst sanctimonious Presidential candidate John McCain regarding his acceptance and then withdrawal from public financing for his Presidential race.
If there were any justice, bloggers and donors from the left, right and center would keep McCain's campaign so tied up with FEC complaints that he wouldn't have any time to be corrupted raise money.
Unfortunately, IIRC, the FEC doesn't have enough members to have a quorum due to Senate Democrats holding up some of President Bush's appointees, which is further delicious irony.
It's the Republicans who are holding up the nominations, incidentally, by their insistence that the individual nominees to the FEC should not get individual up-or-down votes and all four must instead be considered as a package, take-it-or-leave-it. In other words, they've got one nominee so whacked hard-right out they know he'd never pass a vote, and are trying to muscle him through all the same, hoping that people like you will blame the Democrats rather than the Repubs who are fighting so hard to prevent this guy from having an up-or-down vote on his own individual merit.
Want a quorum on the FEC? Tell Mitch McConnell to stop paying the "they're all one big siamese twin, and you can't vote on them individually" game.
"It's the Republicans who are holding up the nominations, incidentally, by their insistence that the individual nominees to the FEC should not get individual up-or-down votes and all four must instead be considered as a package, take-it-or-leave-it. In other words, they've got one nominee so whacked hard-right out they know he'd never pass a vote, and are trying to muscle him through all the same, hoping that people like you will blame the Democrats rather than the Repubs who are fighting so hard to prevent this guy from having an up-or-down vote on his own individual merit."
OK - I stand corrected, and apologize for my mistake.
"Want a quorum on the FEC? Tell Mitch McConnell to stop paying the "they're all one big siamese twin, and you can't vote on them individually" game."
I don't want a quorum on the FEC. I want the FEC abolished.
IP, why do you roll over just because some anonymous commenter makes an unrefereced assertion?
As you can read from this bit in the LA Times ( www.latimes.com/news/printedition/suneditorials/la-ed-fec13jan13,1,5829589.story ), there is more to the story than anonymous relates. So, yes anonymous is correct to the extent he bothers to include one or two cherry-picked facts, but he is incorrect when you look at the entire story. You weren't entirely accurate, but you weren't entirely wrong either.
The comment "so whacked hard-right out" should have been the phrase which tipped you off to this BDS.
Want a referenced assertion? Try this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/opinion/26wed3.html
From all of yesterday.
And are you suggesting that Hans von Spakovsky should be somehow immune from the up or down vote Republicans obviously think he couldn't survive, which is why they have to go the four-headed knights-who-say-ni route?
"IP, why do you roll over just because some anonymous commenter makes an unrefereced assertion?"
Because I was operating off of (an all too often faulty) memory, too busy to look it up, and didn't really feel like arguing about a point that is tangential to my real one: that it is quite pleasant to watch a Senator who believes that all campaign contributions are inherently corrupting and that the Federal government should take a more active role in regulating the political speech of its citizens hoisted on his own petard.
Incidentally, even the latest Fox poll has Bush at a 60% disapproval rating among registered voters, so what you call "BDS" I call "agreeing with the American people."
Gallup has Bush's disapproval rating at 64%; Nixon resigned at 66%. Yet I don't think America had "Nixon Derangement Syndrome" -- they just came to agree that they'd elected, and then re-elected -- a first-class screw-up. Sorta like now.
The bipartisan push against McCrud is gaining momentum...
"We aren't the only people taking notice that John McCain is breaking campaign finance law by blowing past public finance spending limits.
We've gathered over 22,000 signatures on out complaint to the Federal Election Commission, and on Wednesday CNN picked up the story.
Check out the CNN video and let your friends know about our efforts to keep the John McCain's campaign within the limits of the law.
http://action.firedoglake.com/page/pt/mccainfec/
With this momentum on our side we've moved our mass-signature delivery to early next week and set an aggressive goal of gathering 30,000 signatures before we drop of them off to the FEC.
"McCrud", I am not sure who would support any organization that would use such childish name calling?