{"id":196314,"date":"2008-05-08T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/08\/deal-between-bush-and-senate-may-be-close-on-fec\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:09:00","slug":"deal-between-bush-and-senate-may-be-close-on-fec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/08\/deal-between-bush-and-senate-may-be-close-on-fec\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Between Bush and Senate May Be Close on FEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/06\/AR2008050602613.html\"><\/a>It&#8217;s being presented as a grand compromise, with separate votes allowed so that Hans von Spakovsky would be voted but, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/05\/todays_must_read_332.php\">as Josh Marshall so ably notes<\/a>, it&#8217;s really another f&amp;%# you from Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The problem right now is that the FEC does not have a quorum, so it can make rulings, which means, among other things, McCain&#8217;s bungee jumping into and out of the public financing system cannot be approved by the board.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, one of the remaining members of the board, FEC chairman David Mason has been very vocal about McCain&#8217;s law breaking on the matter, which is an embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Bush has renominated von Spakovsky, but is now saying that they can take a separate vote on the nominees, which Spakovsky, would lose, but he is now also <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">submitting a replacement for Mason too<\/span>, with the idea that once he is removed, McCain gets what he wants on a party line vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s being presented as a grand compromise, with separate votes allowed so that Hans von Spakovsky would be voted but, as Josh Marshall so ably notes, it&#8217;s really another f&amp;%# you from Bush and His Evil Minions&#8482; to the Senate. The problem right now is that the FEC does not have a quorum, so it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}