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...After running a few gauntlets, like Hagel's soft-money legalization and a hard-money fight that ended in a sensible compromise, and picking up a few constitutional soft spots, like the constitutionally vulnerable amendment aimed at keeping the special-interest groups from bullying the political parties, the McCain-Feingold soft-money ban cleared the severability hurdle Thursday with a surprisingly strong 57-43 showing...
...McCain-Feingold is not passed yet. Tom Daschle's services corralling a handful of happy-footed Democrats for severability appear to have been bought at the price of haste (got to foul up that Bush budget, after all), and the final victory that even Mitch McConnell expected Thursday night will not come until Monday. But after five years of butting up against Trent Lott's gatekeeping and McConnell's filibustering, John McCain and his shadow army of disgruntled voters finally got a soft-money ban onto the table, out where he could tempt senators with the prospect of a slightly...
...doubt improving those chances for victory on the Senate floor was the steep and treacherous climb McCain-Feingold still faces on the Hill. What has McCain won? A long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with...
...President, who has met with Hagel three times on reform. Although Bush's just-released "statement of principles" differs from Hagel's bill in some respects, Bush would sign it, since it allows soft money. He would forgo tax cuts before he would sign McCain-Feingold...
...have been a false spring. This week the bill faces far tougher votes, any one of which could be fatal. "With each change, I think you lessen the opportunity for us to keep Democrats together and in support of a bill that they can no longer identify as McCain-Feingold," Daschle warned early in the debate. Three days later he added, "There are some bright warning signs, some blinking yellow lights about the direction that we are going...