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...Senators should be prepared for late nights and votes throughout the week," Mitch McConnell said with a slight smirk Monday night as senators prepared to apply their 59-41 signature to John McCain's victory on campaign finance reform. Yes, McCain finally beat the GOP leadership, in a two-week free-for-all that the leadership grudgingly granted him but no doubt considered a criminal waste of the Senate calendar...
...where at least two rich Democrats are rumored to be considering a challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...
...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...
...environmental policy clout of Big Business. But like a virus, political money has a way of mutating so it spreads in any environment. Be careful what you wish for. The cure may be worse than the disease. "This is a stunningly stupid thing to do, my colleagues," Kentucky's Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor, "and don't think there's anyone out there to save us from this...
...Exactly. Both Republicans and Democrats have something they hate about this bill, and the vote on severability is going to be a tough one. Hard-core opponents like Mitch McConnell will vote against severability because they hate the whole bill, and are confident the courts will strike down some part...