The irony in this McCain finance situation is just too much to bare! Senator John McCain has recently been caught up in the campaign finance laws he helped to author, while the Democrats are asking for an investigation from a commission they have yet to appoint members to! If this were to have been a plot in a television sitcom, the majority of Americans most likely would have found it too unbelievable to be amusing. When happening in real life however, you just have to laugh at the absurdity of our elected “leaders”.

Via Michelle Malkin:

The national Democratic party wants campaign finance regulators to investigate whether Sen. John McCain would violate money-in-politics laws by withdrawing from the primary election’s public finance system.

Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason notified McCain last week that he can only withdraw from public financing if he answers questions about a campaign loan and obtains approval from four members of the six-member commission. Such approval is doubtful in the short term because the commission has four vacancies and cannot convene a quorum.

The question now arises, why does a 6 member commission currently have four vacancies? Unsurprisingly, the vacancies are due to obstructionists in the Democratic party, who claim to care about the integrity of elections while refusing to confirm FEC appointments during what could arguably be the most important election season of our generation.

Appointments to the Federal Election Commission rarely draw attention. But at a confirmation hearing today, there’s likely to be some fireworks over Hans von Spakovsky.

Mr. von Spakovsky has already amassed an 18-month long, largely uncontroversial record at the FEC as a recess appointment. But that’s not likely to stop Senate Democrats from grilling him about his time at the Justice Department during President Bush’s first term. The aim will be to portray him as a partisan who mishandled voting rights cases. Exhibit A will be his support for state voter ID laws.

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