John Doolittle: “there is so much that is wrong with the present system, but the Democrats gave us this system. We had a Republican…”

“there is so much that is wrong with the present system, but the Democrats gave us this system. We had a Republican President who, unfortunately, signed it into law. It is a disastrous system. Before this system came into being, most people had never heard of PACs or of soft money or hard money or issue advocacy or all of these wonderful permutations that come as a direct result of the big government regulation that you Democrats gave us, that you love, that is so unconstitutional, so undesirable, and so unworkable. By the way, that is what is wrong with Shays-Meehan. It is more of the same old rehash, more rules, more regulations, more bureaucratic czars, more of everything that is ruining our political system. It is terrible. Here, this is like having a patient that has been misdiagnosed by the physician. The sicker the patient gets, the heavier the dosage of medicine. What is the medicine? Government regulation. Obviously, we do not have enough, let us have some more. Let us take Shays-Meehan. Let us have the Allen-Hutchinson freshman bill. Let us have more of these awful proposals that are so contrary to the whole history of America that have produced this mess that frustrates people, that makes them wonder what is going on in Washington, D.C. What we need to do is step back, get a new diagnosis, and find out what the problem really is. The problem is government regulation of political speech.”