The self-proclaimed reformer mob crowd is literally begging President Obama to scrap the fully staffed and functioning Federal Election Commision (FEC) and attempt to stack it with individuals more to their ideological ilk.  So insistent on legal resistance to the free speech direction of the Supreme Court and so very frustrated with the fact they haven’t been able to walk all over the free-speech Republican Commissioners (as they did in the past), the reformers now recommend going nuclear and resorting to full decapitation of the current Commissioners.  This may allow, at a minimum, the bureaucrats to have a run of the place without any adult supervision during the 2012 cycle.  To the link….

Craig Holman, legislative representative for Public Citizen, explained that the current FEC gridlock stems from the opposition to campaign finance laws by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The FEC is a bipartisan commission with three Democratic and three Republican members. McConnell, as the Republican leader in the Senate, is accorded the privilege of picking the Republican commissioners.  “[McConnell] has figured out that the way he can [block campaign finance law] is by appointing people to the FEC who will not enforce the law,” Holman said.

Holman further argued that the president should end the deference given to the leaders of the Senate in appointing commissioners and should himself name all five nominees for the seats held by commissioners serving expired terms. “I’d ask the president to fix this and go back to the constitutional process,” Holman said.