Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I

Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I

Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I

Senator John Mccain to America: Do as I legislate, not as I, uh, violate the spirit of said legislation in an attempt to ready myself for another presidential run in 2008

Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute,a non-profit think tank, that just so happens to reside in ,the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman)., From ,The Horse McCain Rode In On,, in today’s New York Post:

As Sen. John McCain gears up for a prospective presidential run in 2008, he’s trying to put an ugly little incident behind him one that makes him look like a flat-out hypocrite on his signature issue, campaign-finance reform.

If members of the national media are anything more than lapdogs for the war-hero, "maverick" senator, they’ll start asking some tough questions about a bogus little think tank in Alexandria, Va., called the Reform Institute.

According to the inside-the-beltway paper Roll Call,
McCain has stepped down as chairman of the Reform Institute, citing negative publicity from earlier this year when
it was discovered that the Institute was accepting large cash contributions from businesses with interests before
the Senate Commerce Committee.

At the time, McCain was chairman of the Commerce Committee [...]

Read the whole thing, which includes details of an
earlier AP investigation in March.

It’s one thing to co-author legislation that, when all
is said and done, will do more to weaken the First Amendment
than just about any piece of legislation ever signed
into law; it is quite another, however, to insist everyone else’s free speech be regulated while reserving for
yourself special dispensation.

Unless of course maverick means above the law. In which case, carry on, Senator. Fight the good fight. After all,
if anybody knows what’s best for us, it’s the guy
who doesn’t trust us to speak freely.

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