A reform for a reform

the cincinatti post ^ | 3/10/05 | David Brodeur

[bitt]

WASHINGTON -- When compiling a list of genuine reformers in the United States Senate, a name that does not spring automatically to mind is that of Trent Lott of Mississippi. But the Republican former majority leader has seized the role and is driving hard to end the worst abuses of the last presidential campaign. Those abuses stemmed from the expansion of so-called 527 groups, nominally independent political organizations that collected $400 million in essentially unregulated funds and poured them into TV ad campaigns, often of the nastiest variety.

Democrats were the main abusers, with billionaire George Soros and friends financing a network of groups run by longtime party and labor activists. But Republicans drew even more blood, thanks to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads questioning John Kerry's service in Vietnam.

One of the unexpected aftereffects of this bipartisan excess is a resolve by senators of both parties, led by Lott, the chairman of the Rules Committee, to clamp down on the 527s before the next election. ...

[PGalt]

Good post. Thanks.

[goldstategop]

So Trent Lott wants to screw over the Constitution by helping Constitutionally Forcible Rape along? Aaaaaaargh! Save us from his misguided efforts to eviscerate what's left of the First Amendment in order to stifle independent advocacy the political parties don't like.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Bar-Face]

So the Cheerleader wants to join with the bribe taker in subverting the First Amendment. Lott and McCash (and others)are doing their best to take the Republican party back to their traditional minority status.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

527s are a logical outgrowth of McCain-Feingold stupidity.

[PGalt]

the Cheerleader...the bribe taker

LOL! Two of a kind dealing from the bottom of the deck.