Presidential Ambitions and lawmaking

A post below suggests Majority Leader Frist is conducting Senate business with an eye to 2008. Not surprising -- recall the desire by Kerry in 2004 to cast a vote on veterans issues after missing nearly 80% of the votes due to campaigning, and Frist's efforts to reschedule the vote to thwart Kerry.

Now comes news that campaign finance reformer John McCain wants to change the very bill that he helped to craft to remove some money influence in campaigning (about the time you were born, McCain was involved in a money scandal: he took money from Savings and Loans people, and then pressured S&L regulators to not regulate very much. In the end, failed S&Ls cost taxpayers billions. And just as today the money problems are the majority party's (Republicans) so were they then mostly the majoroity party's (Democracts): you try to influence those who have the power.

so: McCain, House GOP strike a BCRA deal
By Alexander Bolton

House Republican leaders have struck a deal with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to eliminate restrictions on coordination between national parties and federal candidates, a change in the law that would be of great benefit to the winner of the 2008 GOP presidential primary, according to congressional sources.

Republican and Democratic campaign-finance experts alike believe the change would be a boon to McCain’s campaign, if he wins his party’s nomination in three years, an outcome that political handicappers are beginning to view as a real possibility.