I’d like to believe that I’m responsible for this. My mocking of John McCain’s cowardice on campaign finance reform has spurred him to team up with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
Good-government advocates who worked with McCain in the 1990s and early 2000s had begun to think he’d given up on the issue. But McCain said Tuesday he could join Democrats once again to form a bipartisan coalition, even though it would annoy the Republican leadership.
“I’ve been having discussions with Sen. [Sheldon] Whitehouse [D-R.I.] and a couple others on the issue,” McCain told The Hill.
Will anything come of it? If nothing else, it will take up time that McCain would otherwise spend clamoring for war.
