McCain-Feingold was conceived and enacted under the false premise that it is the federal government’s job to protect Americans from political speech by censoring that speech. And now that idea is being flushed down the toilet. I couldn’t be happier, as I have been preaching against this fool’s legislation from day one.
McCain-Feingold restricted what and when you could say about politicians – a horrible law that was and is completely unconstitutional. In case you have been asleep every American is guaranteed the right to free speech and there is nothing in that promise that says anything about limited censorship of certain types of speech. To a typical American politician in 2007, the Constitution is a piece of paper to be ignored, so what it says hasn’t really mattered. Since Americans are by and large lazy and uneducated about politics, it has been fairly easy for politicians to enact tens of thousands of caches of garbage legislation that ignore every principle this nation was founded on.
McCain-Feingold is one of the worst of these dishonorable little control documents conceived in the spirit of nannyism and birthed by a group of people who hide behind good intentions and the raw, lumbering power of a massive bureaucracy that would have made most colonists pick up their muskets and assemble in the town square for a good old fashioned tarring and feathering, if not a lynching or two.