Von Spakovsky Out

Bush's voter suppression guru withdraws his nomination to FEC.

This means that the FEC board nominations will likely proceed, and that there will be a quorum for actions to be taken once again.

My guess is that they are increasingly worried that the (completely accurate) accusation that John McCain is in felony violation of the law that defines his "Maverick" status will hit the main stream, so they finally decided to cut him loose, so they can sign off on McCain's "bungee move" that he used early in the primaries to get a loan for his campaign.

Additionally, it would mean that McCain could not sign up for public financing in the general, and the board would need to sign off that too.

FWIW, the story is starting to bubble up, and he's not doing well in fund raising anyway, so I think that the Dems should "stand on politics principal" and insist on separate votes for the FEC board members anyway...or at least drag their feet a little bit.