Good job, CHS. This is well above and beyond 'golf clap' worthy, this is action, meaningful and real. I applaud you and those who've signed the list. Here's my take.
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Even so, FEC Chairman David Mason sent McCain's campaign a strongly worded letter (PDF), letting them know that even though McCain didn't consider his word on accepting public financing binding, that the FEC was not about to let him off the legal hook. What did McCain do? He ignored the letter, secured a loan based on representations of obtaining public financing and then blew past the public financing law spending limits...and he's still raising campaign cash, too.
Quelle suprise! This is the last chance to rescue the idea that we should have "the rule of law" in this country. Either McCain is held to this standard, or he is not. I believe he will not be. I believe the FEC will do nothing. I believe the SCLM
will do nothing, and gloss over and/or bury this. I believe the Federal Government as presently constituted will enforce no truly damaging law upon any national-level, media-approved Republican. I believe no Democrat of similar station will speak critically of nor contribute to efforts like yours, because of a combination of ignorance, arrogance, the disease of Villagerism, and the desire to have these powers for themselves. But I still thank you for your efforts.
There is no rule of law anymore, not for Republicans. It's a desire of mine that more people, more progressives, adopt an attitude that takes that as an operational reality. It's sort of my attitude on the media, as well. There is no "balance," no "fairness doctrine" there. Anyway, I question the value of efforts to 'demand' that various government agencies do their jobs. It's not that such is a bad idea, or is poor in principle; rather I think if we want "results," we have to try different strategies, different areas of focus.
McCain could rape a goat while drinking fundie baby's blood on live national teevee, and nothing bad would happen to him, he'd still be treated as a viable candidate for office. Of course this rule doesn't apply to Democrats. Letters will be written, words will be spoken. But holding McStain to a legal standard as if he were like you and me? Nah gunna happen.
So...what else to do about that?
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well done FDL
While the rest of us are occupied with the circular firing squad, FDL is on the case.
It is very important, in the last years of the Soviet Union, dissidents did very similar things. Bonus, Jane won't be spending time in a labor camp, at least not yet.
It is important that the McCain campaign be forced to go through the motions of responding to this.
Maybe we could even have a blogswarm, calling for people to contact the McCain campaign directly and call on McCain to obey the law.
No rule of law, you say?
Why, why....why, that's anarchy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
Good on FDL....
.............but what is Kos doing in this. I just commented and told Jane:
Kos in I'm out.
A strike's a strike and I have no intention of helping the chief 'B on the B' rehab his dumb ass by throwing McSame under the bus.
Throw the Magic Man there....
And we'll talk..
A. Citizen
Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.
that is bizarre
If I told you that Kos likes puppies would you kick a puppy? The strike is against the DK site, nothing else.
I like Puppies!
.........who do you really think calls the shots at dKos? Adam B, Meteor Blades?
Kos could have put a stop to the insane behavior there a loooooooooooooong time ago.
The strike involves not visiting the site as well as no commenting there writing a diary.
Tell you what....
I'll do what I want to do to push back against the Boys on the Blogz....you do what you want.
FaIr?
A. Citizen
Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.
yeah, Citizen, gotta agree with DCb
whatever your beef with GOS, he is an original signatory and strongly behind this effort. so he gets points for that, like FDL and everyone else taking part.
you can avoid going there or speaking of him if you like, but this doesn't seem to me to be a good place to say something bad about our Leader.
!...............
Goodbye.
A. Citizen
Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.
The FEC cannot function
OK so I went and read more than the first paragraph over at Hamsher's. Still, without four members there will be no real action.
Not My Leader
Kos is a hypocrite who has lost his mind, but occasionally in amusing ways (see http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/26/...). But I see no reason why that should keep me or anyone else from supporting Jane's effort against McCain, which is a righteous one, even if it's probably doomed to failure.
Now, my question is why Kos's guy Obama isn't calling McCain out on this, it seems the perfect excuse to get out of Obama's bullshit promise to do public financing in the GE.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
BDblue, that is a hoot
irony is still dead
Ditto the "pro-Kos" comments
You would rather let McCain get away with this than work on a counterattack because Kos is involved? Boggle. I don't like what Kos has become, but he's not the one promising to stay in Iraq a thousand years and making jokes about bombing Iran! Hit McCain every chance you get, with everything you got.
Yabbut
See here.
All Kos cares about his getting the DNC out and his guys in. Could it be that there are other priorities?
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi