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...Then we'll see whether McCain can live with it, or whether he'll feel that the evils of the system have just been further codified. But it's important to remember that even with all the publicity over the Breaux defection (Louisiana Senator John Breaux declared his opposition to the bill last week), and all the rumblings on the Democratic side, McCain-Feingold still has the votes to pass the Senate...
...joined business groups to fight a provision barring unions and corporations from running "issue" ads--thinly veiled plugs for candidates--just before elections. Republican Senators now believe they can kill McCain's bill by recruiting potential Democratic defectors, such as New Jersey's Robert Torricelli and Louisiana's John Breaux and Mary Landrieu. (Some will try to save face by supporting Hagel's watered-down version, which caps soft-money contributions at $60,000.) Senate minority leader Tom Daschle insists that "most Democrats" will still vote for McCain's measure, "but that doesn't mean...
McCain and Feingold have been barnstorming the states of Senators whose votes are in doubt. Last Friday, while Bush was in Lafayette, La., pressuring Breaux and Landrieu to support his tax cut, McCain and Feingold were in New Orleans pressuring them to support campaign-finance reform. Public-interest groups, hoping to hold the Louisianans and others to past promises, are dredging up newsclips in which the lawmakers are quoted as saying they will vote for McCain's bill. To switch now "would truly be the height of hypocrisy," says Matt Keller, Common Cause's deputy legislative director. But even...
...forcing the most fiscally conservative members of the party to accept a tax cut they consider too large and by doing it before he produced the details of his budget and spending cuts, Bush galvanized the Democrats "in a way Dick Gephardt could never do," says Democratic Senator John Breaux. "That could spell serious problems for them on Medicare reform, education reform and other issues. What they did certainly didn't change the culture. It was just a repeat...
...time to test the instinct of the Democrats for self-preservation. Soft money is the Democrats' bread and butter, and now that it might really be taken away, members - after lining up loudly behind McCain to a man in years past - are scattering. Louisianan John Breaux has already sided with Hagel. Bob Torricelli is making similar noises. More will follow when it comes time to fish or cut bait...