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Republicans argued against sections of this CFR bill being constitutional and lost some of those arguments it seems. Difference between them and the anti-Bush crowd on here is that instead of whining they didn't get their way, they are rolling up their sleeves to find ways to work around this decision.

Republicans in Congress and the White House could have prevented this bill from becoming law. Any work they're doing now is too little, too late. They made this work for themselves.

You can gamble on some things, but the Constitution is not one of them. I warned back when the bill was passed that this was a foolish and dangerous risk, yet was shouted down because of those warnings. Hopefully everyone will learn from this debacle.

The part of all of this that annoys me the most is that the people doing the money collecting have already figured out how to get around the decision. Here's part of an email from a friend of mine who is a major fundraiser for a certain incumbent:

I have to say that I'm only amused because I think the Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot on this one at least temporarily, On a more serious note I think that the infringement on rights is disgusting but ironically it is going to make my job easier and will ultimately be "gotten around " give the strategists a couple of weeks they'll find loopholes...