20 June 2008  John McCain Is Breaking the Law Right Now  Right
this very minute. Every commercial that airs, every T-shirt and
mailer printed, every minute every paid staffer works, every
copy they make at every campaign office. He can do this openly
and with impunity because the Federal Election Commission has
been rendered inoperable by the current Republican
administration.  This is the most glaring and salient fact about
the state of public financing of the presidential election right
now, and should be a prominent part of every article written
about Barack Obama's decision to opt out of public financing.
But it's somehow nowhere to be found in discussions in the old
media. Why? Because it's too complicated for Joe Sixpack to
follow? Nonsense. Let me explain it with a simple dialogue.
Hey, let's make a deal you and me. Let's commit to only spending
$100 a month on gas from now until the end of the year.  You're
already spending nearly twice that? Well so am I. But let's do
it anyway. It'll save us some