Sometimes NRO writer Andrew Leigh e-mails:

Bradley Smith’s warning that the FEC may extend McCain-Feingold speech
restrictions to the blogosphere, linked to earlier by Kathryn, reinforces a
point made by Jonah: far from welcoming the rise of the blogosphere, Democrats
view it as yet another burgeoning threat to their media monopoly.
From the CNET article:
“Smith and the other two Republican commissioners wanted to appeal the
Internet-related sections. But because they couldn’t get the three Democrats to
go along with them, what Smith describes as a ‘bizarre’ regulatory process now
is under way.”
And from the interview portion of the article, Smith said:
“This time, we couldn’t muster enough votes to appeal the judge’s decision. We
appealed parts of her decision, but there were only three votes to appeal the
Internet part (and we needed four). There seem to be at least three
commissioners who like this.” [And these three commissioners are Democrats.]
Smith does go on to say, “I don’t think the Democratic commissioners are
sitting around saying that the Internet is working to the advantage of the
Republicans.” But I think he’s just being diplomatic, in hopes of still
changing some of their minds.