Pete Martin and Zachary Roth have an excellent piece on how Republican nominees have made the Federal Election Committee disappear. It’s a great example of the kind of story that is too politically loaded for the mainstream media: FEC watchers say the commission’s three Republicans—Donald McGahn, Matthew Petersen, and Caroline Hunter, each nominated by President Bush—are acting out of philosophical opposition to the very idea of regulating campaign money. “It’s the Republican caucus