Pick Four (paid subscription required) appears in today’s issue. A snippet:
- But while Congress has been quick to criticize the FEC (and this editorial page has certainly taken its fair share of shots at it as well), leaders of both parties have given short shrift to the one area in which they can have the greatest impact on making the body effective. Right now, four of the six current commissioners are serving on expired terms. And even if, as some in the reform community were wringing their hands about last week, President Bush offered nominations to the six-member panel as the Senate wound down its business before the August recess, in anticipation of making recess appointments to the body, even that move would miss the point. Not surprisingly, the names that have made the rounds in campaign finance circles as potential nominees are closely associated with either their respective parties