One of the main reasons for the BCRA (a.k.a. "McCain-Feingold law") was to rein in soft money ads right before an election. Soft money is of course money, beyond the campaign finance limits, from groups for attack ads to influence an election. Well, the Federal Election Commission will decide whether to open a large loophole in the law, so that these groups can again make the ads! And they are considering expediting the decision in time for this election season, even though the proposal was made last February! The Campaign Legal Center's website has a letter addressing this audacity.

If the FEC carries through with this and ok's the loophole, I will lose a lot of faith in its commitment to enforce this nation's campaign finance laws.

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