Everything Will Change. Or Not.
On the Hill, Republican leaders and their conservative allies were apoplectic, arguing that the bill–long championed by Sen. John McCain–would wreak havoc on the party, on free speech and on the legitimate flow of big money into politics. But downtown, the GOP’s permanent establishment of lawyers, consultants and handlers were calmly clinical. The bill was not Armageddon, they said. It might still end up being debated to death in the Senate....