"I'd like to thank Commissioner Thomas for providing the most cogent argument yet for the abolition of the FEC."
- Glenn Reynolds' opening remarks to the Politics Online Conference. Glenn was following the mind numbingly dull remarks by the Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission, Commissioner Scott E. Thomas.
Update: A full transcript and video will be available here later this evening, so pass the link around. In the meantime Glenn has posted his thoughts about the speech. One bonus to bringing a laptop was that I was able to show Chairman Thomas that at the time of the speech 650+ additional people had signed onto the letter [Ed - 1250+ as of this evening]. Suffice it to say he's was a bit in awe. We'll have a picture of Michael Bassik delivering the letter soon as well.



Comments (11)
Holy crap, Instapundit has ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by mcg | March 11, 2005 3:44 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Holy crap, Instapundit has balls!
1. Posted by mcg | March 11, 2005 3:44 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 15:44
2. Posted by Confederate Yankee | March 11, 2005 4:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Big, brass, puppy-blending balls. I can't wait to see the transcript of that speech.
2. Posted by Confederate Yankee | March 11, 2005 4:27 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 16:27
3. Posted by McGehee | March 11, 2005 5:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hell, I want to see Thomas' face at the moment he realized what Reynolds had just said.
3. Posted by McGehee | March 11, 2005 5:07 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 17:07
4. Posted by Rod Stanton | March 11, 2005 5:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I agree with him 100% and applaud his guts; which I have known he has for many months. It was he who first callid for Kofi's canning in an article in the WSJ(I may be wrong on the paper here) 4 months ago. That took big, brass, balls as we said in the Old Corps.
4. Posted by Rod Stanton | March 11, 2005 5:11 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 17:11
5. Posted by mcg | March 11, 2005 6:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Still trying to parse the "puppy-blending" thing.
5. Posted by mcg | March 11, 2005 6:32 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 18:32
6. Posted by SilverBubble | March 11, 2005 6:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Heh, that's great! Go Glenn!
6. Posted by SilverBubble | March 11, 2005 6:35 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 18:35
7. Posted by m | March 11, 2005 7:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
mcq: First time I heard about Glenn Reynolds being a puppy-blender was IMAO (website) accusing Glenn--who was getting all the blog-traffic--of putting puppies in a blender; a tongue-in-cheek accusation of scandal to mockingly tarnish Glenn's reputation and, consequently, send some of that prized blog-traffic IMOA's way.
7. Posted by m | March 11, 2005 7:15 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 19:15
8. Posted by julie | March 11, 2005 7:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, I sort of miss all the puppy smoothie jokes.
8. Posted by julie | March 11, 2005 7:56 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 19:56
9. Posted by BumperStickerist | March 11, 2005 8:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well ... the FEC has ways, you know.
I expect that pretty soon Glenn's voting records will be released anonymously via Wonkette/TPM/Altercation. They will show that Law Prof Glenn has for the past seven presidential elections years written in "my penis ... hehehehehe" for President "my nutsack" for Veep.
9. Posted by BumperStickerist | March 11, 2005 8:42 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 20:42
10. Posted by Ikkonoishi | March 11, 2005 9:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No he wrote in "Heh" for pres. and "Indeed" for VP.
10. Posted by Ikkonoishi | March 11, 2005 9:16 PM |
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Posted on March 11, 2005 21:16
11. Posted by Greg | March 12, 2005 8:02 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow, nice verbal smackdown! Can't wait to see the transcript. Can we edit out the parts where Thomas made everyone yawn?
11. Posted by Greg | March 12, 2005 8:02 AM |
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Posted on March 12, 2005 08:02