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Show Tue SaltLakeTribune OPINION F April 5, me Als McCain-Feingold Will Just Make the Money HardertoTrack eeoe the issue-advocacy loophole by regu lating the broadcast of public interest — 2 did. within 3 days of 2 primary and @ days of the general election But this will be struck down by the courts, as were similar provisions in Buckley. If the First Amendment stands for any thing, it is that groups of people can join together to promote or disparage 2 candidate's position on issues as an election draws near. The Supreme Court has written repeatedly that “the First Amendment‘has its fullest and most urgent application’ to speech uttered during 2 campaign for political ice” T ples, mind and that of Jotn Sam policy analyst at the Cato In the only outstanding question is whether the US. Supreme Court will approve McCain Feigold’s ban on soft money. a we both agree the court probably will There are at least five and probably six votes on the court for the propost stramed by the law’s limits ne 8 ee the 2 ducing poli corruption. 1 couldn't disagree more. Political parties are our ideological surrogates and giving money to them is the way many Americans express their sup port for the w: jernment caught to tributions going directs date, limits the U.S. Sepr stand in Buckley vs. V seminal campaign finance iy letting Congress The Man Who Won't Go Away Bill Clinton won't go away ¢ pictured on the April ¢ ver of Newsweek flying the take away our ability to underwrite poll parties with whatever re sources we can muster, the court would be selling out our right to try to change the course of government. The court would also be dooming the prospects for any new and minor political party from ever gaining a foothold. It takes the seed money of millionaires to generate support for a nascent political movement. Would the formeriy vigorous Reform Party have gotten off the ground were it not for the deep pockets of founder Ross Perot? Ciiton political Paul Begala and Jar ville, (now “on the ns CNN's “Crossfire”) have « authored a book with 2 titleas With what he gets for speeches eportediy $200,000 to $00,000 LOS ANGE: atte Aidluaed deh oe si Clinton once ow Jacob Marley, dragging around chains of his own making and trying to purge the public’s memoryof his serial misdeeds. The former president still has a few allies, whose futures are in part conditional on explaining their own past en = abling of a man in need of pey chological, net to merition spir- theory Hillary “Rodhara can’t accept the le was not a ‘so gis.” Clinton your mother’ defined Bill resp nd by Ci loathing that they they project it his marriage, Bill Clinton is tration figure was ind: but the top wa ed. And the Indeper of evidence would go up if he flipped? Wel fare reform? He first opposed it bat then supported it when polls showed the peopie were in his faults {I thought he didn't still married toa girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school he is a man who, favor. There are many other @ year because he put service first.” Right! Servicing women too numerous tolist. “By any standard of mea Begala asserts, Clinton Counsel's office said there was plenty notes that “for all of kind of polit: examples. Begala then s on the couch. Asi by BazzPlash, “How can you explain the viru lent hatethat 90 maily people in his problems. Clinton won't go away be a he’s not finished. He'll spend the rest of his life, like en More manipulated ble. And the electorate will disengaging further. the polls showed his popularity TIMES, SYNDICATE Susan McDougal, who never incarnation will simply inspire new ways of hiding large pol butions, making the When You Foul Up. not have sex with that woman, governor, or Whitewater figure campaign finance rules, the newest faye any'] and the troubles in Ina March interview for the eee Just as Justice Kennedy warned about the unintended consequences of Republicans se negative campaigning bec e know Merits $ noth io to po- jan.” And what “ideas” did ( lunton have that he wasn't willing tojettison if Web page “BuzzFlash,” Begala makes claims that are as pre posterous as Clinton's “I did domestically), his $12 million book deal, could afford a private jet, but and freezing all bank accow ing Congress does will effect all the ways big money flow. litical advocacy. former president: Buck Up, Suck Up . . . and Come Back cluttered as their defense ofthe New York Washington shuttle. The world of McCain-Feingold is a fantasy. Short of gagging the populace of wrongdoing. It's difficult to select the e these people hate themselves I believe they hate cur country. I believe they hate our culture (he’s right about that, especially a culture that would tolerate the kind of unethical and immoral behavior ti a good man. # man. Heis a successful By any standard? a decent man.” The Ten Commandments? The Consti tution? Nice try, Paul, but even many of your coapologists don't believe that itual help. Those wild and crazy SATURDAY, APRIL 6 10% Off All JET, Performax & Powermatic Tools! 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