As recently noted, the House defeated the effort to prevent the campaign finance laws from being used to suppress bloggers.

Now political commentator Michael Barone says:

Sources tell me that among the people at one of the Senate Democrats' strategy meetings was Steve Bing, the Hollywood billionaire who, together with Peter Lewis and George Soros, contributed more than $60 million to the anti-Bush 527 organizations in the 2004 campaign. (Thank goodness the McCain-Feingold law got the big money out of politics.)

The great virtue of the Internet is that it does not require big money. Congress seems determined to turn the campaign finance laws on end by using them to prevent any influence except big money.

To repeat: This is madness. Moral legitimacy, once lost, is very hard to regain.