<An exercise in futility.

As long as the government is given almost absolute control over commerce, you will have as much luck stopping business money from getting to Washington as you would stopping a neutrino with a used Kleenex.

BTW, the Democrats scored several million dollars in soft money ahead of the ban to build a nice new Democratic Headquarters building. For those puzzled by this behavior in a party that seemed so indignant about the utter wrongness of soft money, let me explain. In the Democratic moral code, it ain't wrong if it's technically legal. If it's illegal, it ain't wrong unless you're caught, and if you're caught, it ain't wrong unless they can prove it. And if they prove it, it ain't wrong unless people still remember it a year later.