Given that the GOP has raised a record amount of money for a non-election year, the defeat of Shays-Meehan is no surprise. Supporters of reform on the Hill now have the opportunity over the weekend to attempt to make this the story of the weekend and push the Chandra Levy case off the front page. I doubt the scandal-mongering media will let them, but if they can create enough of a ground-swell, they have a shot at getting the bill to the house floor for an up or down vote. Another question is whether the democrats are raising equal sums of money as the GOP in order to oust the republicans in 2002.
- posted by levinson @ 7/13/2001 11:02:00 AM