Fortunately, the majority of this Congress is not ideologically predisposed toward the undemocratic, unconstitutional, bureaucratic finance scheme embodied in McCain-Feingold. Further, a powerful and diverse coalition has coalesced to protect American freedom from the McCain-Feingold juggernaut. These groups understand that the First Amendment is America's greatest political reform. In the Senate, McCain-Feingold's fortunes cling pathetically to the specter that the Government Affairs investigation into the Clinton campaign finance scandal will fuel public pressure for reform. McCain-Feingold is a failed approach to campaign finance that has proved a disaster in the presidential system.
Experience argues for scuttling it entirely.
Those who get off the sidelines and contribute their own money to the candidates and parties of their choice should be lauded, not demonized. My prescription for reform includes contribution limits adjusted, at the least, for inflation. The political parties should be strengthened, the present constraints on what they can do for their nominees, repealed. These would be steps in the right direction.