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Money is as money does. A Republican filibuster left campaign finance reform dead in the water for a fourth consecutive year late Tuesday, despite Senator John McCain's no-surrender vow. All 45 Democrats voted against the maneuver by the GOP leadership, but they were joined by only eight Republicans, leaving them seven votes short of the 60 they needed to defeat the filibuster. Although the bill's sponsors - Senators McCain and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) - had narrowed down the legislation into a ban on the unlimited soft-money contributions that allow corporations to pour millions of dollars into party...
...debate had proven it a bad idea. By rejecting it now, we have, in Clinton's words, "severely harm[ed] the national security of the United States" and "damage[d] our relationship with our allies." Unfortunately, these concerns don't seem to matter as long as Lott and the GOP have a chance to publicly embarrass their arch-nemesis...
...politics ruined the chances of a successful League of Nations. Its failure as an institution is said to be one of the factors that led to the re-emergence of German power and World War II. Following in the footsteps of Henry Cabot Lodge, Trent Lott and the Senate GOP may have very well stifled one of the world's best hopes to decrease nuclear proliferation...
...Then, Monday morning, a surprising blow came at the hands of a New York Republican power broker. Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who months earlier had thrown his weight behind the Texas governor, announced he would head up the New York campaign of Bush's chief GOP opponent, Arizona senator John McCain. Molinari has had close connections to Bush, having run his father's 1992 New York presidential campaign. Molinari was cryptic about the sudden switch, saying Bush did nothing to dissuade him but that McCain "is best able to continue the legacy of leadership of George Bush...
With all those good numbers, the only danger now seems to be in getting out of the way of those stampeding to take credit. It's all due to prisons, claimed the GOP, citing their legislation encouraging longer prison sentences and claiming that this keeps criminals off the streets and acts as a considerable deterrent. Others point to the strong economy and say that in a nation where seemingly everybody's little brother is in on a hot IPO, now more than ever crime doesn't pay. And demographers say it's simply the fact that there are now fewer...