>>>The facts are that the unconstitutional parts should never have been put in in the first place.
The facts are, there are many in Congress, who didn't see this law as unconstitutional. There were many others, who agreed to it, knowing the USSC would strike down certain portions as unconstitutional. This was one of the purest political issues, to come along, in quite some time. As a conservative, I'm thankful, there were many smart legislators, who understood how to handle this issue. The whole idea was to get this over with, once and for all and get John "McManiac" and his rabid partner Russ Feingold outta the way for good. This was an issue that barely showed on the publics radar screen, but had tremendous potential for growing into a monster political issue and one that would have further clouded the atmosphere in Wash-DC.
LOL, this I agree with, only because so many in Congress don't know the Constitution, or don't care even if they do.
And the concept of "just getting it over with," is also a crock. Once laws get on the books, and once govt. gets power, the situation very rarely gets corrected.
In the short term, playing politics is all very well and good. But in the long term the country is worse off -- only the average people pay the price, nothing improves, and the country continues its downhill slide.
Just once I would like to see politicians actually try to make the country a better place, instead of making peoples' lives worse.