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...role and do whatever it takes to stop the House from meeting McCain halfway. Shame, after years of high-pitched support, may keep Senate Democrats in line, but the wider (and more anonymous) bipartisan coalition that backs the ban in the House could prove to be vaporous. Campaign finance reform has always attracted the faux Quixotes in droves...
...McCain-McConnell duel, at least, ended Thursday with a concession. Campaign finance reform's least apologetic enemy gave up the fight in full-on supervillain mode, thrusting his pointer at a chart of the fund-raising future and growling to supporters - particularly Democrats - that they would rue the day they bit the system that feeds them...
...Week Two, Day Four of the Senate debate on campaign finance reform, McCain-Feingold was ready to cross the threshold...
...Russ Feingold, acknowledging that the courts might well strike Snowe-Jeffords down, called it a baby-and-bathwater issue and quoted his partner McCain: "Non-severability is French for 'kill campaign finance reform,'" Feingold said, "and I think he's right." Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), who still hasn't gotten over Rehnquist's deciding Florida vote, announced that the conservative court had too much power already - and that campaign finance reform was worth risking an imbalance down the road...
...Week Two, Day Three of the Senate debate on campaign finance reform, McCain-Feingold got on a roll...