McConnell's weak case to limit campaign financial disclosure

A great editorial in today's Herald-Leader:

McConnell, in an op-ed published last week in The Washington Post, followed admirably circuitous reasoning to use the scandal involving the IRS targeting Tea Party groups as a launching point for an argument that landed on limiting public information about political contributors.

McConnell's target was what he terms "the so-called Disclose Act," a measure that was introduced and died in 2010 as a response to the floodgates of corporate money opened up by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that same year. Briefly, the act would prohibit corporations with significant foreign ownership from contributing to U.S. campaigns, give the public access to information about corporate and interest-group campaign expenditures, and require large organizations that made political ads to disclose their membership.

...There are (good) reasons for Congress to write laws that ensure we know who is paying for the messages that bombard us. This is a democracy; it's our government. Show us the money that sets it all in motion, and tell us where it comes from.