McCain Falls Victim to McCain-Feingold
Can we say poetic justice? It seems that likely Republican Presidential nominee Senator John McCain may run afoul from his own legislation. The McCain-Feingold travesty has come around to bite him in the posterior.
read story from the Washington Post:
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 22, 2008; Page A01
The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until the general election campaign begins in the fall.
The prospect of being financially hamstrung by the very fundraising system he helped create is the latest in a series of bitter challenges for the presumed GOP nominee, who still faces a fractured conservative coalition as he assumes the mantle of party leadership.
The McCain-Feingold bill was passed because McCain threatened to hold up judge nominations and make President Bush's life a living Hell. Many Republicans in Congress including President Bush passed the bill thinking the Supreme Court would do the right thing and strike it down. Unfortunately, The Supreme Court had a massive brain fart and upheld the bill even though it was a direct attack on the very speech that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution was meant to protect, that of political speech. Read about the history of McCain-Feingold.
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