But Barbra Streisand can still go on Rosie O'Donnell's show and give a nice long speech about why everyone should vote for Al Gore THE DAY BEFORE THE ELECTION and that is still legal. How many fat cat sources did that money come from?
When they restrict the Corporate giants who own media outlets to the same financial limitations then we can talk about the issue ads being "no big deal". I give to interest groups who advertise and I'd like to keep that right thank you very much!!!!!!!!!
In all the hysteria over the part of the bill none of us likes, ya'll overlooked the fact that "hard money" just doubled. Pubbies collect gobs more hard money than Dems. So, the Pubbie interest groups will advertise up to 60 days before election, then the candidates will use their hard money to carpet bomb the airwaves to rebut Babs and Rosie.
Assuming the Supremes do their duty and hold the 60 day restriction unconstitutional, this bill becomes majorly pro-Pubbie.
In the last 40 years, the Courts and Congress have done a lot of stuff that IMHO infringes my Constitutional rights. CFR is probably 55 on my to do list. Conservatives shouldn't be getting their panties in a wad over this - restricts the blood flow.