Today, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted 11 to 1 to give the District its first full voting seat in the House of Representatives. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) cast the lone "no" vote.

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In an effort to remove fundraising barriers, the Republican National Committee is filing a suit to challenge campaign finance laws that ban the use of soft money and limit coordinated efforts between candidates and the committee.

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In the hours before Election Day, as inevitable as winter, comes an onslaught of dirty tricks - confusing e-mails, disturbing phone calls and insinuating fliers left on doorsteps during the night.

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Campaign shocker! Other Attendees Spotted at Rashid Khalidi Bash!

1. The grassy knoll 2. Karl Marx 3. Groucho Marx 4. Jimmy Hoffa 5. Elvis 6. Bigfoot 7. Grey aliens 8. Several hundred sex-starved Trekkies 9. Roasted peanut hawkers 10. A Mariachi band 11. Flying monkeys 12. Assorted circus clowns

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McCain funded Rashid Khalidi and now criticizes Obama for meeting with him

The latest in embarrassing episodes about to explode on the McCain campaign is that the person he is criticizing Obama for associating with is someone McCain funded to the tune of half a million dollars through a group that he chaired.

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In what has to be one of the most embarrassing turn of events for the McCain campaign thus far, it appears that in purchasing $150,000 worth of clothes for Sarah Palin and her family, McCain and his campaign and/or the RNC have violated the 2002 McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance R …

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While McCain's movement to the center was widely popular (if not on the right) - and he even flirted with becoming a Democrat - there's now strong reason to question whether it was anything but a temporary, expedient tactic.

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The Republican governors group and its Democratic equivalent are a different breed of 527 organization, the only ones formed by the parties themselves.

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The Supreme Court today narrowly overturned a controversial provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation, ruling that it is unconstitutional to allow candidates to accept larger-than-normal contributions if their opponents use their own fortunes to finance elect …

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The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the "millionaire's amendment" as an unfair way to help opponents of wealthy candidates who spend from their personal fortunes.

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Campaign manager Rick Davis released the details of the "McCain Victory 08" fund on Friday. He said the entity is a joint committee, combining the McCain campaign, the Republican National Committee and four key states under a "hybrid legal structure."

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Politics loves money, and wealthy candidates have a big advantage when they run for public office.

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Once upon a time, you were there for us, offering a stern word against the well-heeled special interests or adding your name to the all the best campaign reform measures or rushing to appear before the cameras.

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Most of the criticisms aimed at McCain can be directed at President Bush himself. Campaign-finance reform is a great example. Most conservatives think McCain's effort to regulate political speech is an unconstitutional abomination. But in fairness to McCain, he doesn't think that.

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Now It's Personal: John McCain's Attack On My First Amendment Rights

I really don't need another reason to strongly oppose John McCain for President, but now I have a really, really big one because this affects me personally I've just learned that because of McCain-Feingold, county republican parties in Georgia are being told they should no long …

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What's a Conservative, Neo-Con, Lost in the Woods, Republican leaning, Independent to do???????

Thursday, January 31, 2008 What's a Conservative, Neo-Con, Lost in the Woods, Republican leaning, Independent to do??????? So here I am, the day after my end-of-the-world day. John McCain won.

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by Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst Judicial restraint the guiding principle of the Court's two newest justices.

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How to run for a Republican presidential nomination By Rick Perlstein on June 26, 2007 - 11:32am. Make up your ideology as you go along.

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Toasted: Edwards and McCain

Obviously, this is just my opinion, but I believe this has been a very bad two weeks for John Edwards and John McCain. So bad, in fact, that I believe their respective candidacies are essentially over, finished, kaput, toast. Stick a fork in 'em, they're done.

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A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows 6 in 10 Americans think the Democratic Congress "hasn't brought much change." Eager to change this impression, the Democrats are frantically trying to pass legislation before Memorial Day.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in affirming the constitutionality of the McCain-Feingold speech restrictions, advocated deference toward elected officials when they write laws regulating speech about elected officials and their deeds.

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Unalloyed good news is rare, so rejoice: The foremost achievement of the political speech regulators -- a.k.a. campaign finance "reformers" -- is collapsing. Taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns, which was in parlous condition in 2004, will die in 2008. ...

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From the article: Campaign finance reform is what it pretends to combat: corruption. The Supreme Court should have said something like that when it struck down, as unconstitutional abridgments of free speech, Vermont's severe limits on contributions to and spending by campaigns.

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The Supreme Court's pass could easily create an attack on campaign finance once Alito is confirmed and the case comes back to the high court.

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Chief Justice John Roberts gave free speech advocates hope Tuesday when he questioned the constitutional limits of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law in the law's most recent challenge to make its way to the Supreme Court.

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