NyTimes: Having the Watchdogs to Tea and Politico: Agency Nullification at the FEC.

The newspaper representing New York City is upset again and resorts to calling Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioners “party hacks” for their refusal to chill political speech.  Instead, they want the FEC to undermine the law by bureaucratic regulations and President Obama to unilaterally clean out the place and replace everyone of them with so-called reformists.

While the media and reform community have a right to voice their opinion, they are now pushing a federal agency to undermine the dictates of the Supreme Court by their rule-making power.  The role of an FEC commissioner is not to sit as a potted plant and rubber-stamp the recommendations by staff bureaucrats and other outside “reform” groups.  The FEC should not be about pushing reforms, rather the equal application of the law.