But the Hagel bill puts no cap on soft money to state parties which could continue to serve as the launderer for unlimited donations to candidates. Fortunately, both of Georgia's U.S. senators support the McCain-Feingold bill. But some Democrats are nervous about ending the money addiction. The issue ought not be about partisanship, though, but about keeping government by the people alive and well. Support for McCain-Feingold is a vote for the people.
Opposition is a vote for big money.
No doubt the 40 Atlanta-area clerics and theologians who filed suit this week to scrap Georgia's electric chair have previously spoken out from their pulpits and divinity school lecterns against this barbaric killing machine. Thus, as conscientious citizens, the plaintiffs are dutybound to challenge it in keeping with the letter and spirit of both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. The chair's cruelty should be beyond question. There's no way to gauge the pain it inflicts and no denying it mutilates those wrapped in its lethal embrace. That should be unacceptable in a state that professes to be civilized.