[mossyoaks]

Any legislator who promotes legislation based on the premise that politicians are crooks who are routinely bought and sold tells me more about the sponsoring legislator than anything else. Is it possible that it tells more about the legislators with whom McCain has worked, prompting him to believe that something must be done to curtail the influence peddling in Washington?

[Lancey Howard]

Is it possible that it tells more about the legislators with whom McCain has worked, prompting him to believe that something must be done to curtail the influence peddling in Washington?

Point taken.

I have always believed that with his version of CFR, McCain was selfishly trying to atone for his 'Keating Five' involvement - - assuage his guilty conscience or something... Anyway, what McCain succeeded in enacting was a frontal assault on the Constitution (regardless of a reckless 5 - 4 Supreme Court ruling) and the law is little more than an "incumbent protection" law.

The proper CFR would have been a carefully crafted transparency law.