Yes, this was reported on Keith Olberman's "Countdown" (one of the
very few worthwhile TV news programs) last night. What else should
one expect from the criminals who use up oxygen in Washington, DC,
particularly The Smirking Shrub?
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On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Jeff H <[address removed]> wrote:
> With help from a very special friend... Bush!:
> (Source:
> http://www.politi...)
>
> Obama counsel Bob Bauer, on his always-punchy personal blog, considers the
> newest appointments to the FEC and writes that the regulatory body is being
> put back together to exclude a Republican commissioner who had taken a
> critical stance toward McCain's attempt to thread the needle on public
> financing.
>
> In this one move, the White House ended McCain's accountability for his use
> or abuse of the primary public financing system while putting him in
> position to take money for the general.
>
> For this maneuver to have been arranged for the benefit of Senator McCain,
> of all people--the John McCain who has regularly, severely criticized the
> FEC as a "corrupt" agency--is a remarkable turn in his career as a reformer.
> A Commissioner who acted to enforce the law, to just raise an important
> question of enforcement, has been stripped of his post. This was clearly in
> Senator McCain's interest, this raw power play. It is also in his interest
> to have the FEC, back in business minus Mason, arrange for his money for the
> fall campaign.
>
> He goes on to make a case that's going to be central to Obama's logic for
> forgoing public financing, despite his pledge to join the system: That
> McCain is a hypocrite on this reform issue.
>
> For all the time that McCain has savaged the performance of the FEC, he has
> led the sizeable crowd of critics who believed that the agency is too
> beholden, on the whole, to the narrow interests of parties and their
> candidates. Yesterday, Republicans could not have acted more narrowly in
> just this vein: effectively firing a Commissioner to immunize their
> Presidential nominee from enforcement action in a pending case but making
> sure that there is enough of an agency left to get him the money needed to
> finance his campaign.
>
>
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