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ORIGINAL: RVU
Unions have been circumventing the Mccain-Feingold law for years. Of the 8 largest contributors to national candidates last year-7 of them were unions, and the other was the American Trial Lawyers Association. Sense of trend here?! Or are liberals with false cries today going to bury their head in the sand about this one. By the response today, it seems that it is the latter. One has to be a hypocrite to say it is okay for unions to contribute so heavily but not public corporations-they’re bad. Also with the advent of 527s, the rise of opinion television, and the increasing power of Drudge/Huffington/political blogs-all since Mccain-Feingold was inacted in 2002-has made the law obsolete in fulfilling its purpose to prevent indentured wealth (assumption that it is from the right, however Soros and even Gates proves otherwise) or power (left-unions, NARAL) from influencing public elections.
I think you are right. The law was ineffective. By allowing it to stand, all it did was set precedent that the government could stifle free speech. And ultimately all that does is whittle away individual rights.
