BREAKING: 218 Signatures on Discharge Petition! Anti-First Amendment Campaign Law Now To Be on Floor

Gasp. Your first amendment is in trouble, folks! Little DICK Gephardt is boasting about this anti-First amendment legislation. He invokes Enron. Sick.

Politics will still be the playground of the rich.. but lets stop the wholesale selling of our highest offices.

If you're really concerned about this supposed "wholesale selling of our highest offices," why not just reduce their price? If our Federal government is for sale, it's because all the power it has aggregated in the past 70 years for itself attracts influence money like flies to rotting meat. CFR simply lets it add to the illegitimate unconstitutional power it arrogates to itself. Strip power away from the Feds---don't let them add to it.

I just posted this in the original thread...In case you're interested, here are the four congresscritters (Bass and Petri are Republicans) who signed the discharge petition today to put it over the top:

January 24, 2002
215. Thomas E. Petri Wisconsin 06
216. Charles F. Bass New Hampshire 02
217. Corrine Brown Florida 03
218. Richard E. Neal Massachusetts 02
The rest of the list and the text of the petition itself can be read here.

"Never happen. First, this petition merely takes the bill out of committee and opens it for debate. Second, it has to be passed by both House and Senate. Third, it has to pass through the House/Senate conference committee. Fourth, it has to be signed by W.

There isn't a commentator around today that has managed to add up what this Discharge Petition is all about - and what is IS all about is finding a way to tie Enron to the Bush Administration when all other avenues have failed.

The DemoRATS have finally figured out - once the media flat out told them, "Guys, you're marking the wrong tree, here. The Bush Administration didn't have a thing to do with Enron." - that the ONLY way they could POSSIBLY get any traction in their attempts to paint Dubya with the Enron brush is to resurrect CFR, using snide innuendos about "especially at THIS time..." and so forth. They are positively giddy --- for the third time. And it will be delightful to see them shot down --- for the third time.

In fact, there may be SOME in the DemoCRAT leadership who might quietly acknowledge that CFR will, ultimately, NEVER make it into law. BUT, it gives the DemRATS a mechanism to sustain their wheezing assertions that Dubya is somehow responsible with Enron. There's a MAMMOTH risk involved. The risk is that people are ALREADY getting tired of "Enron." They'll be sick of it - sick to death - in another month if the DemRATS keep banging away at it. It just doesn't touch enough people.

Michael

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