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Personally I hope the 527s get the same treatment the people do. Shut them down now.

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"There has been absolutely no case made to Congress, or record established by the Commission, to support any notion that tax-exempt organizations and other independent groups threaten the legitimacy of our government when criticizing its policies," the Members wrote. "We believe instead that more, not less, political activity by ordinary citizens and associations they form is needed in our country."

Uuuuuuhh, I believe that the CFR (BCRA) and the SCOTUS interpretation of the CFR support the "notion that tax-exempt organizations and other independent groups threaten the legitimacy of our government when criticizing its policies,". They should read their own papers (NYSlimes, WaPo) more often and they would know this.

What these folks are really complaining about is that they supported a crappy piece of legislation that, in hindsight, is more restrictive to Dem campaign finance and campaigning techniques than it is to Republican techniques. They would like to shift the focus of any action to the FEC to try and keep it off of themselves and the Congress so that they don't have to do anything to repeal all or parts of CFR. IMO, they would like to keep the CFR intact so that they can enforce the provisions they like in the event they regain power in the House, the Senate or (particularly) the WH to make them more restrictive against conservatives than they currently are against liberals.