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...good news for John McCain, who always looked his best in an uphill climb, is that this plateau will be brief. After five years spent getting McCain-Feingold to the Senate floor and two weeks dodging bullets once it got there, McCain-Feingold passed the Senate in an anticlimactic 59-41 roll-call vote Monday evening...
...empire is ready to strike back. McCain nemesis Mitch McConnell, who jokingly adopted the "Darth Vader" moniker for himself during debate last week, gave his own closing statements as the evening session opened, reiterating at great length all the ways that McCain and Feingold's cure was worse than the disease (if there was a disease at all). But his primary message is simple: He and McCain-Feingold will meet again...
...Sponsored by McCain-Feingold doppelgangers Chris Shays and Marty Meehan, a soft-money ban has cruised through the House before by wide margins, but as in the Senate, pro-reform votes get awfully skittish as soon as they're meaningful. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has vowed to "try anything I can" to defeat the bill, and on this one he's got Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, who's upset about the hike in hard-money limits, in his corner...
...Should a soft-money ban pass the House, there's the matter of reconciliation - taking McCain-Feingold and its House equivalent and molding them together into one unified bill. In other words, take the torturous negotiations and amendment-adornment that kept McCain-Feingold on the brink of death the last two weeks, double them for the House, and then multiply by four. Sunday, New York Democrat Charles Rangel told CNN he knew how it would come out: The measure would pass the House by a slim margin - and then die of a Republican "poison pill" when it goes...
...both on the House floor and in the dimly lit committee parleys - may be the star power of the man who's gotten McCain-Feingold this...