Word: reformer
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...worry that politicians are not inclined towards genuine reform," Guinier said...
...bill, introduced on Monday, is running a two-week-long gauntlet on the Senate floor, with scheduled votes every three hours on this amendment or that, most of them put forth by reform opponents looking to kill McCain-Feingold by diluting it to death...
...keep Democrats from bolting as he tries - for real this time - to erase the one money edge they have over the Republicans. Hagel and Bush are wooing wafflers with the political cover of a watered-down version, possibly (more gossip) in exchange for tax-cut votes. Even Mitch McConnell, reform's staunchest bogeyman, has a proposal - a shutoff mechanism for the soft-money ban if the outside advertising provision is found to be unconstitutional on free-speech grounds...
...president doesn't want McCain-Feingold, but also doesn't want to remembered as just another reform-killing establishment Republican. Bush last week sent over a third proposal, which would ban soft money donations by corporations and unions (as opposed to individuals, who could still write the big checks) and prohibit unions or corporations from using member or shareholder funds for political activities without permission. This is what's known as "paycheck protection," and Bush likes it mostly because unions hate...
...When it comes to efforts at self-reform, of course, emasculation is what Washington does best. "It's going to be a free-for-all," anti-McCain-Feingold Republican Don Nickles said on "Fox News Sunday" of the pending debate. "We don't often legislate like that, but we're going to be on the floor for two weeks. My guess is you'll see a hybrid come...