A Delicious Irony
George Will's Sunday column outlines a future delicious irony:
I've said this before: The government isn't nearly as good at keeping corruption at a minimum as the blogosphere is. We are true campaign finance reform because we're good at pointing out the bad apples such as extremist groups in both parties.
Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:25 AM
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First, the mantra of campaign "reformers" is that there is "too much" money in politics. But McCain will shun public funding because it provides too little money. He can raise much more from private interests. (But not from "special interests," which are interests McCain disapproves of.)This shows the hollowness of McCain's convictions. They tell a tale of elitism in the sense that he's acting like McCain-Feingold doesn't apply to him, just to others. Saint John isn't worried that he'll be corrupted; he's worried that "the process" is corrupted. He's here to save politicians from being corrupted by special interests like religious organizations, gun rights lobbies, business organizations and others who's rights are enumerated in the Constitution.
I've said this before: The government isn't nearly as good at keeping corruption at a minimum as the blogosphere is. We are true campaign finance reform because we're good at pointing out the bad apples such as extremist groups in both parties.
Second, the reformers revere the McCain-Feingold legislation that expanded government regulation of the quantity, timing and content of political speech. But McCain-Feingold is one important reason why the public funding system is collapsing.Isn't that simply delicious? I can't wait until BCRA is challenged again and makes its way in front of the Roberts Court. That's when it'll meet its ultimate demise. Frankly, that moment can't come soon enough.
Reformers , redoubling their efforts as their goal of total public financing of all campaigns recedes, now propose measures to resuscitate what the public is trying to euthanize with nonsupport.This is one government program that needs to whither on the vine and die. Based on Mr. Will's statistics, this program is so unpopular that the only thing keeping it alive are idiots in Washington. As Mr. Will points out, I'd doubt that this program will ever actually die. I suspect, though, that it'll essentially become a nonentity. Good riddance.
Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:25 AM
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