That's the one GW Bush signed, expecting the Supreme Court would rule it unconstitutional--which they did, but only in part.
The parts that remain have caused untold misery for political activists of every stripe and gave rise to "independent expenditure" PACs where large donors could remain anonymous while ordinary Americans giving just a few dollars at a time get their names, occupations and amount given recorded for the public to see by the Federal Election Commission.
Yeah, sure, that has gone a long way toward cleaning up politics in this country.
How could the Republican Party have been so terribly misled by this supposed war hero as to make him their 2012 candidate for President?
It was 2008