Thanks. While I despise McCain Feingold, it was a truely bi-partisan bill. Also, I don’t put much stock in bi-partisanship. We’re right, they are wrong. Get as many people to agree with us as possible and win the argument. Yet Schuler’s “Save Act” was a clear attempt by Pelosi’s dem ran house to offer up a bill that is popular and dems could run on in November knowing full well that it would never be a reality. Now its coming back to bite them in the ass. The only “honest” dems in the picture are the 7 out of the original 49(who signed the actual bill) who signed the petition. The other 42, I am sure, are up for election in November and should be run out of office just on principle.
There is another question: If, somehow, SAVE was discharged by petition, would all the republicans who signed the discharge petition vote to pass the bill in a floor vote?