Molly Ivins: Play-by-play on campaign reform: “The U.S. House of Representatives is debating campaign finance reform, and it’s one of those days when all citizens should be political junkies. It doesn’t get better than this — the stakes couldn’t be higher, the tension couldn’t be thicker, the theater is superb. Passion, drama, comedy, hypocrisy, devious plot devices, splendid villains, noble heroes … this is just the best. The casting director has a spectacular imagination: Tom DeLay and Dick Armey alternating in the role of Iago — wow.” workingforchange Also: David Corn at tompaine.com asks: Is Pseudo Reform Better Than None?: “Shays-Meehan opens as many loopholes as it closes.” John Nichols writes in The Nation: “The debate on the Shays-Meehan bill provided an all-too-rare display of what an engaged Congress might look like.”