Matthew Yglesias on Lessig's new book.

The disappointing experience of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance effort should remind us that it’s extraordinarily difficult to get money out of politics in a manner consistent with freedom of association and expression.

I sure wish I found Lessig's proposal compelling, but I don't. People voting with dollars are going to be just as subject to manipulation as people voting with votes.

I DO like Yglesias's comments about the need for more and higher paid Congressional staff. Part of the problem is that the legislature is approving bills written by lobbyists rather than doing their own research and their own bill writing.