The $639 Million Loophole (flag)
online.wsj.com — We're fresh off the most expensive election cycle in history, in which the winning candidate raised record amounts of money while opting out of the campaign finance limits. With victory in hand, Barack Obama's allies now want to return to the alleged virtues of public money. If there was ever a ...
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Maggie's Farm — ... The $639 million loophole Paglia on Palin and the election The Iraq war is over. The good guys won. The UAW is the force behind the auto bailout. Related: The US Treasury's ATM is open for biz. Here's your bailout form. Insty: A LOOK AT subdivision wildlife. Interesting discussion in the comments. I see deer in my neighborhood pretty regularly, and saw an eagle the other day. Google Earth does ancient Rome in 3D ...


Dissecting Leftism — ... The $639 Million Loophole: "We're fresh off the most expensive election cycle in history, in which the winning candidate raised record amounts of money while opting out of the campaign finance limits. With victory in hand, Barack Obama's allies now want to return to the alleged virtues of public money. If there was ever a demonstration of the folly and hypocrisy of campaign finance reform, this would be it. The GOP is using this demonstration to make another constitutional challenge to McCain-Feingold" ...

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