FEC appointments upcoming
By krempasky Posted in FEC — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The Skeptic lets us see a glimpse of what might be to come, thanks to her subscription to Roll Call (elitist!).
It might be enlightening, given McCain’s disdain for the “wrong people” to know who the Senator believes are the “right people.” He shouldn’t be able to take potshots at candidates without his alternatives (presumably he has some) seeing the same scrutiny.
Now, I think the President could get Senator McRosenberg to shut his yap just by threatening the *right* recess apointment. I recommend Mrs. Allison Hayward. That'd sure scare the bejeebus out of the reformers.
Apart from the pure glee that would ensue - there's a good argument to be made that if you need to use a recess apointment to keep up the 'good and valuable' work that the Commission does - why not make an appointment that doesn't affect the ideological balance of the Commission once Smith leaves? We hear liberals make that sort of case regarding the judiciary all the time - and who better to maintain that balance than Smith's former counsel? She's qualified, she sharp, and she wouldn't have the same learning curve that another short-term appointment would neccesitate. You heard it here first: DraftAllison!
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that the President ought to appoint John Bolton to the F.E.C. Kidding aside, a Hayward appointment to the F.E.C. would be similar to a Bolton appointment to the U.N.
I do hope the President is given wind of your proposal and gives it some damn serious consideration.
For real fun, appoint Eugene McCarthy. Not only is he an unassailable figure, but he is on record as wanting to abolish all campaign finance laws.
Where do I contribute. Allison would be an outstanding appointment.
If Senator McCain is the Republican nominee for President or VP in 2008, are there folks here who are planning to leave the party? I'm just curious.
And putting to the side that the right way to solve this whole mess is to abolish the FEC and the campaign finance laws altogether, that's the right angle: Get someone hostile to the bureaucracy's mission as the head of the bureaucracy. A nice, conservative approach to the problem.