"The federal election campaign laws, which are already (as today's opinions show) so voluminous, so detailed, so complex, that no ordinary citizen dare run for office, or even contribute a significant sum, without hiring an expert advisor in the field, can be expected to grow more voluminous, more detailed, and more complex in the years to come — and always, always, with the objective of reducing the excessive amount of speech.
Go ahead and flame me. I no longer care, but the one reason GWB will not get my vote next November is because he signed this odious piece of 'legislation' and then expected the SCOTUS to clean up his mistake.
Well, he guessed wrong and he saddled me and my future generations with a Legislature that can now be counted on to find even more ways to reduce 'excessive amounts of speech.'
Thanks President Bush, for driving another nail into the coffin of what once was a Free Republic.
Others may forgive you, but I will not.
L