According to this morning's Washington Post, McCain-Feingold is already having unintended consequences; in effect, it legalized bribery. "The Federal Election Commission voted yesterday to allow challengers in congressional races to pay themselves a salary from their campaign funds, a move designed to enable more people with modest incomes to run for the House and Senate."

Enlarging the pool of potential candidates may be a noble goal, but allowing them to literally become paid employees of the interests they represent isn't. Besides, we already have plenty of people who perform that function. They're called lobbyists.
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