At the risk of sounding like an asshole: the continuing impasse at the Federal Election Commission could cause problems for the only Democratic candidate, John Edwards, who will take federal matching campaign funds. The Commission is frozen in place because of a lack of a quorum. There are four vacancies on the board which have not been filled. The remaining two members cannot conduct official business and federal matching funds could be delayed as a result. Despite stiff opposition from a conservative Democratic Senator Diane Finestein, the Regime has refused to withdraw the nomination of Hans A. von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department civil rights attorney that has created a furor for his history of suppressing minority and Democratic voting rights [1]. The Charlatan placed Spakovsky on the FEC using a recess appointment, but von Spakovsky resigned on New Year's Eve. It was von Spakovsky who came up with the idea of purging election rolls of felons. This process led to the erroneous disenfranchisement of thousands of mostly Democratic voters in Florida prior to the 2000 election. For his clever work in voter suppression, von Spakovsy was rewarded with a front office job at the civil rights division.
Edwards, who has failed to win either Iowa or New Hampshire, is facing a very tough race in South Carolina against the Obamanon. The 50% of South Carolina voters who are black voters are expected to vote for the ethnic candidate. That means Edwards faces a serious competitive disadvantage in the race if he does not have the funds to broadcast his populist message to 23 states before Super Tuesday. The FEC certified on December 20th that Edwards was entitled to receive $8,825,424.82 in federal matching funds. Is this Mexican standoff what pundit Chris Edwards cryptically referred to when he said, "the Democratic establishment will put out the fire of insurgency"? The corporate suzerainty of American politics will never be broken until the dominate role of corporate campaign contributions are removed or drastically reduced.[2]
[1] http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/26/spakovsky-primer/
[2]http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070604/berman