Like a Bustier on an Amoeba

Or some such metaphor of a stricture that does not fit, the product of thinking that is absurd, anomalous, ultimately slippery and disastrous: the prospect of figuring out where bloggers can and cannot speak, link, or mail /syndicate under campaign finance laws. 

Scrap the  ~&#(`$^#  laws.  They didn't do what anyone wanted them to, anyway.  In Austin we have had the dreary satisfaction of seeing the last years' activists for "campaign finance reform" in the following season begging the crowds outside Whole Foods to sign new petitions to modify the laws. The scheme now in play hobbles candidates and programs, to no one's satisfaction.

Convince us:  is less influence peddled?

And in some circumstances, this-here little burst of free speech by private citizens on no-one's payroll [a pity, that], if it linked to a policy paper on campaign finance published by a candidate to whom we contribute, could violate the law against contribution limits.

Paging Thomases Paine and Jefferson. Paging Monsieur Franklin. Call your offices.  Ponder your Republic. 

Will we keep it?

Via Instapundit.

Update:  Some backstory suggests we wuz railroaded.