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"It would have to overcome a Republican filibuster and a Bush veto and then get 2/3rds of Congress to override.
It sounds scary, but it's not going to happen in the next two years for sure."

And even if there is a Democratic President and it gets past Congress and the White House, it will be shot stone dead by the Supreme Court. Good luck getting past THAT!

"And even if there is a Democratic President and it gets past Congress and the White House, it will be shot stone dead by the Supreme Court. Good luck getting past THAT!"

So should have the CFR law... it got past the supreme court. So let's leap ahead 3 years. Bush did not get another conservative on the Supreme Court... the new democratic president did get his candidate on.

What now. For that matter, how much confidence do you have that this Supreme Court?

And even if there is a Democratic President and it gets past Congress and the White House, it will be shot stone dead by the Supreme Court. Good luck getting past THAT!

That is almost word for word what I posted to Jim Robinson several years ago when the McCain-Feingold CFR bill was about to be signed by President Bush. Jim replied that he did not trust the Supreme Court. A short time later I had to eat my own words when the Supreme Court voted 5 - 4 to let the bulk of McCain-Feingold stand. Jim had been exactly right.

The point is that this kind of dangerous legislation needs to be stopped dead in its tracks long before it gets to the President's desk. The Supreme Court cannot be trusted. I, and a lot of other people, learned this lesson the hard way. "Fool me once....", etc.